So, it seems like the remnants of the Xiongnu took their time, mixing with other people, before this new people, the Huns, embarked on their rampage. “The ancestors of Attila’s Huns took many ...

Researchers found that the group led by Attila the Hun contained a mixture of diverse ancestries, with at least a few related to elites of the Xiongnu Empire Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent In ...

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 ...

Severance somehow keeps getting better and better this season. Our recap of S2E6, "Attila," which features some hanky panky in the office and an awkward dinner.

Burt and Fields used to call each other "Hun" as a term of endearment before switching to "Attila", as their original shared pet name was a derogatory term for Germans during the inter-war years.

WARNING: This article contains major spoilers from Severance season 2, episode 6 - Attila This week things took another unexpected turn on Severance. Viewers saw the dinner between Outie Irving ...

The pet name is obviously a play on Attila the Hun, the feared enemy of the 5th century Roman Empire who is known for, amongst other things, killing his brother to become the sole ruler of the Huns.

By the fourth century, however, they had coalesced into more powerful groupings. The turning point came in AD 376, when tribes of nomadic Huns, savage fighting forces on horseback who Christopher ...