• bamfic@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Mongolians? In 1300BC? Wasn’t it 2,500 years later, in like, 1200AD when they came rolling thru?

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      2 months ago

      Attilla the Hun was around 450 AD too. Not exactly Mongolian, but very similar in the sense of being nomadic horse archers from the steppe.

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        They might actually be related. The huns originated from east of the Volga river (so east of the Scythians) and recent research identified genetic links to ancient Mongols