Status Updates From Attila the Hun

Samuel Kurinsky- Hebrew History Federation- 'The Jews of Aquileia: A Judaic Community Lost to History'
www.hebrewhistory.org/factpapers/aqui...

'This is what we know, this is what we think we know, and this is what I think...'

Historian- John Of Antioch

Chapter 5- We start with Atilla himself. The rest has been possible, or actuall, context.

419- Death penalty for anyone Rome caught teaching barbarians to build ships.
420- Banned export by sea of certain goods (which?)

Olympidorus of Thebes in Egypt- 22 Volume History of the Huns, from living with a Hun king, Charaton.
It's been lost to time, except for other sources mentioning its existence.

-Must fire at the moment when all four of horse's hooves are off the ground in gallop. And only that split second. The movement must become a part of you, the realization and action of shooting without thought it's so ingrained in you. You don't, and won't, have the time to think.

Technical process of horseback archery.

In Mongolia, children at 3 are tied to horses 'until the two become one'.

'The Invisible Man' by Géza Gárdonyi

'Artificial Cranial Deformation: A Contribution to the Study of Ethnic Mutilations' by Dingwall

The Huns had massive, tribe-sized cauldrons for making food for large groups. 16-18 kilos in weight.

2nd Cen BC- India had rope toe stirrups
302 AD- Chinese statue, horse with stirrups
5th Cen AD- China and Korea iron stirrups
6th Cen AD- Hard evidence that stirrups existed

Ptolemy:
Khoinoi - Chuni - Hun
North of Sea of Azov

Mongols had tent bearing wagons, 10 mtrs across, pulled by up to 22 oxen at a time.

Mongolese believe the Huns came from the Xiongnu- An explanation of phonetics is given

Mongolians usually shorten their name to an abbreviation in every day life.
'Odbaatar' to 'Od', for example.