Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this episode, Copper Axe from Musaeum Scythia and I explain why the Xiongnu and Attila's Huns did NOT speak Yenisean and were NOT a Yenisean people at all.

Consider this our extensive rebuttal to Svenja Bonmann's and Simon Fries' article from June, where they constructed a theory of Xiongnu AND Huns in Europe to have been a Yenisean and not, say, a Turkic people at their core.

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Chapters:
00:00 Khan's Den is back... with a guest!
02:20 A strange theory about the Xiongnu and Huns
16:23 Who were the Yenisean peoples anyway?
23:00 Steppe Peoples and the factors of Nomadism and Migration
29:35 The Jie People in China: a key to the Yenisean-Xiongnu theory?
40:34 DNA of the Steppes
53:26 The Xiongnu-Turkic Connection
59:33 The Political Argument for the Xiongnu-Turkic theory
01:03:50 Conclusion and final remarks