Holy smokes this is good -- what was going in Asia when Western Civilisation was doing its thing. Am listening on audio -- great narrator too. Here's a taster on the Huns:

a classical version of Mad Max: Fury Road. The Huns were creatures from a nightmare: dressed in robes made of field mice skins stitched together, they ate raw meat, partially warmed by being placed between their thighs. But it was not just that they were exceedingly savage; they looked terrifying, too. The Huns performed cranial deformation on their young, flatten[ing] the frontal and occipal bones by applying pressure [so that] the head grew in a pointed manner, as well as scarring the cheeks of infant boys when they were born . . . They spent so long on horseback that their bodies were grotesquely deformed; and they looked like animals standing on their hind legs.


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