After the fall of the Hunnic Empire in 454 CE, the Gepids took control of the eastern Carpathian Basin. Surprisingly, this transition did not erase Hunnic traditions.

Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube frontier provinces of the Roman empire ...

Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 (9) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2418485122 ...

New archaeological analysis suggests people of Western Roman Empire switched between Hunnic nomadism and settled farming over a lifetime. Findings may be evidence of tribal encroachment that ...

However, there is a 300-year gap before the collapse of the Xiongnu Empire and the Huns appearing in Europe around 370 C.E. Scholars have wondered if DNA evidence could fill that gap, according to a ...

The Hunnic Empire stretched across Europe, from the Black Sea to modern-day France. (Image credit: Public domain.) Rise to power. Attila was the son of Mundzuk and an unknown mother.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., released a new campaign ad in which she depicts herself as being "more conservative" than ruler Attila the Hun, the ruthless ruler of the Hunnic Empire. ...

For years, the unstoppable Attila sacked city after city until a Germanic-Roman alliance halted the Huns in A.D. 451. The victory underlined a hard truth for the tottering empire: The barbarian ...