[blam]

The Xiongnu were some of the most ferocious fighters in the world. The Han Dynasty almost collapsed while fighting them.

I do believe that the Xiongnu, the Scytians and the Picts are related. BTW, they are related to the Hakka Chinese also.

[lsee]

Sand-covered Huns? I prefer sugar and cinnamon coated...or maybe chocolate sprinkles...

[blam]

The Xiongnu Culture - Third Century BCE

[Vidalia]

The Chinese are at least affording this knowledge to the rest of the world without excavating first, then rewriting history, as the US Liberal Elite are now doing...

[sneakypete]

I do believe that the Xiongnu, the Scytians and the Picts are related.

I think so,too.

[Hemlock]

The original Scythians were Indo-European; however, some scholars believe they eventually mixed with Mongoloid populations. The Picts were probably related to the Basque, but as far as I can tell, nobody has proven anything definite regarding their ethnicity, only that they were eventually subsumed by Irish and Norse invaders. The Huns, of course, were primarily Mongoloid. Frankly, I don't see how all of this adds up to those populations being related in the sense you are implying.

[Clara Lou]

ping me too?

[EternalVigilance]

...the city was built by more than 100,000 Xiongnu people in AD 419. Named "Tongwancheng," which means "to unify all countries," the city is composed of three parts: the palace walls, the inner city and the outer city.

Man, they were after a New World Order too!!

Looks like it panned out about as well as this current attempt will. ;-)

[RobbyS]

The real deal.
Maybe this will be on the tour I take to China in a couple of years. Meanwhile I will be waiting for National Geographic

[the-ironically-named-proverbs2]

bump

[FairOpinion]

Thanks for putting this article, though a couple of years old, onto the Weekly GGG Digest.

Very interesting and I haven't seen it before.

I guess the Huns weren't just a bunch of savages. This city sounds impressive.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam for the topic and Cogadh na Sith for having it in your favorites list.

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