The Origins of the Huns: DNA & History

In this episode geneticist Razib Khan takes us into a topic that remains controversial to this day and that is the origins of the Huns. He starts off by describing how the Huns were seen in Late Antiquity and how they were described by ancient historians while acknowledging that we have to be careful with these sources due to their bias - after all these sources are from their enemies. We discuss historiography on the origins of the Huns and what the traditional views have been and how they changed over time and why?