“DSB Conference 2022”, organized by the PhD students of the Doctoral School of Biology in ELTE was held in Budapest, December 1st 2022.
The latest archaeogenetic results related to the research of Hungarian prehistory of the Institute of Archaeogenomics (Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network) have been recently published in the scientific journal Human Molecular Genetics of the Oxford University Press.
An article by director Anna Szécsényi-Nagy was published in the spring issue of the Hungarian Archeology, in which the Institute of Archeogenomics and its current research are presented.
,Who were the Avars? Less known than Attila’s Huns, they were their more successful successors, who ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. We know that they came from Central Asia in the sixth century CE, but ancient authors and modern historians debated their provenance. Had their core group arrived from Western Eurasia, or were they descendants of the Mongolia-based empire of the Rouran, known as formidable enemies of China?
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