| dwight shrute | 27 Mar 2014 5:45 p.m. PST |
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| DrSkull | 27 Mar 2014 6:10 p.m. PST |
Man, tbose guys in the comment section were getting seriously hot under the collar about whether the Huns were Turkic or Mongolian in ancestry. I mean, dude, it's been 1600 years, let it go. |
| Only Warlock | 27 Mar 2014 6:31 p.m. PST |
To be fair people of the middle east still argue about Alexander the Great in their coffee houses. |
| Intrepide | 27 Mar 2014 6:52 p.m. PST |
DrSkull, you should see how it lights up when Turks claim Genghis Khan as theirs. It gets real ugly real quick. |
| John the OFM | 27 Mar 2014 7:22 p.m. PST |
I don't see the Irish claiming Sweeney Todd… |
| Battle Phlox | 27 Mar 2014 7:41 p.m. PST |
"I don't see the Irish claiming Sweeney Todd…" They would if he had conquered England. ;) |
| (Stolen Name) | 27 Mar 2014 10:43 p.m. PST |
Thought you meant this bloke, I didn't even realise he was dead?
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| parrot1500 | 27 Mar 2014 10:53 p.m. PST |
How can they find his tomb when he's not dead? I'm engaged to his daughter. He was over this weekend and had some pungent Hunnic comments about me and my life choices… |
| magister equitum | 28 Mar 2014 3:37 a.m. PST |
Plaese people, it is an obvious hoax |
| Tgunner | 28 Mar 2014 7:17 a.m. PST |
Is it? I'll hold my judgement for a while longer. But you would think that a find like this would electrify the news in Europe. This isn't some obscure kinglet in Russia or Siberia. It's the big, bad Hun himself. But again, I'll hold my judgement until better trained folks chime in. |
| Intrepide | 28 Mar 2014 7:31 a.m. PST |
According to Jordanes: "When they had mourned him with such lamentations, a strava, as they call it, was celebrated over his tomb with great revelling. They gave way in turn to the extremes of feeling and displayed funereal grief alternating with joy. Then in the secrecy of night they buried his body in the earth. They bound his coffins, the first with gold, the second with silver and the third with the strength of iron, showing by such means that these three things suited the mightiest of kings; iron because he subdued the nations, gold and silver because he received the honors of both empires. They also added the arms of foemen won in the fight, trappings of rare worth, sparkling with various gems, and ornaments of all sorts whereby princely state is maintained. And that so great riches might be kept from human curiosity, they slew those appointed to the work--a dreadful pay for their labor; and thus sudden death was the lot of those who buried him as well as of him who was buried." |
| magister equitum | 28 Mar 2014 9:27 a.m. PST |
The photo is a chinese ming mummy, Albrecht Rümschtein doesn't exist and no reputable source is given. Hoax
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| Who asked this joker | 28 Mar 2014 11:39 a.m. PST |
So what you are saying is that Attila was in fact really Chinese?  |
| Intrepide | 28 Mar 2014 5:59 p.m. PST |
No, that he was a Hoax. Totally different tribe. |
| jhancock | 28 Mar 2014 6:25 p.m. PST |
Looks like an elaborate April Fools joke released early! |
| jdginaz | 29 Mar 2014 5:59 a.m. PST |
"So what you are saying is that Attila was in fact really Chinese?" No German! |
| Khazarmac | 29 Mar 2014 12:27 p.m. PST |
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| The Gray Ghost | 29 Mar 2014 3:18 p.m. PST |
Plaese people, it is an obvious hoax Hoax or cover-up?? magister equitum, IF that's your real name |
| bilsonius | 07 Apr 2014 4:47 a.m. PST |
There was a report during the Soviet era that the body of Attila had been found. How could they be sure it was Attila? The AVO Security Police examined him and he confessed. |
| spontoon | 12 Apr 2014 4:10 p.m. PST |
It's a well known fact that he was really MacAtilla McHun, and is buried in the Outer hebrides! |
paints the prototypes for the Eureka Amazon Army.
