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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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TheHotze@lemmy.world
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I thought Hun was a generic term like barbarian

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The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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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.

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