Long obscured in the shadows of history, the world’s first nomadic empire - the Xiongnu - is at last coming into view thanks to painstaking archaeological excavations and new ancient DNA evidence.

The nomads, known as the Xiongnu, also had prominent roles for women, the researchers said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances on April 15. The Xiongnu Empire was ...

In an age that spawned the ancient Roman and Egyptian empires, Mongolia’s Xiongnu Empire broke the rules of imperial expansion. Long before the Mongol Empire arose, Asia’s first nomadic empire ...

Known as the Xiongnu, the empire saw conflict with great rival imperial China that resulted in the construction of the Great Wall, parts of which still stand today. However, with no written ...

The Xiongnu Empire had dissolved around 100 CE, leaving a 300-year gap before the appearance of the Huns in Europe.

The Huns suddenly appeared in Europe in the 370s, establishing one of the most influential although short-lived empires in Europe. Scholars have long debated whether the Huns were descended from the ...

Scientists have discovered a genetic link between the Huns who ravaged Europe in the latter years of the Western Roman Empire and the Xiongnu confederacy that lived on the Mongolian steppe before ...

Women were elite political strategists in the Xiongnu Empire, which ruled present-day Mongolia from around 209 bc to ad 100, a study suggests 1. Juhyeon Lee at Seoul National University and ...

Their remains, found at the Bayanbulag site, paint a complex picture of war, migration, and possible execution during the Han ...

The analysis revealed that some of the Huns were distant descendants of the Xiongnu, nomadic tribes that lived in the Mongolian steppe beginning in the third century B.C.E. Even though these two ...