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The Great Wall of China Has Suffered 'Irreversible' Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relic (news.artnet.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

*Mongol horde

(The Huns attacked Europe)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought Hun was a generic term like barbarian

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

No, it was a specific tribe.

However there were "barbarian" tribes near China named the Dzungar and the Xiongu, both of which are a bit like "Hun" and either of which are suggested to perhaps be the eastern side of that same tribe.