A woman’s skull with signs of intentional modification discovered in a Hun-era burial site in Pusztataskony, Hungary. Credit: Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone / CC BY 4.0 For centuries, historians have ...

The Huns were a nomadic people whose sudden and ferocious arrival in the late 4th century sent shockwaves through the ancient world. Known for their lightning-fast ...

In contrast, the ancestors of Attila’s Huns took several generations to move westward and mixed with various populations across Eurasia. These discoveries provide new insights into how past societies ...

Skull of a woman with skull modification found in a Hun-era burial in Pusztataskony, Hungary, that can be directly linked to Xiongnu elite burials from Mongolia. | Credit: Tamás Hajdu, ...

Excavation photo of the Hun-period “eastern-type” burial from Budapest, Népfürdő Street (Hungary). (Credit: © Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum) What ...

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 ...

800. The ancestors of Attila's Huns took many generations on their way westward and mixed with populations across Eurasia." Implications for European history This research illuminates how past ...

800. The ancestors of Attila's Huns took many generations on their way westward and mixed with populations across Eurasia." This research illuminates how past societies in the Carpathian Basin ...

800. The ancestors of Attila’s Huns took many generations on their way westward and mixed with populations across Eurasia”. This research illuminates how past societies in the Carpathian Basin ...

One intriguing skeleton, however, is a 35- to 50-year-old Hun woman with an elongated skull who was buried with gold earrings at the site of Pusztataskony in Hungary in the first half of the fifth ...

800. The ancestors of Attila’s Huns took many generations on their way westward and mixed with populations across Eurasia”. This research illuminates how past societies in the Carpathian Basin adapted ...