A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals
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A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 7, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 96 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #6 of 30, reached on Nov 7, 20:09 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 10:39 UTC.
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This reminds me of Herodotus [0]. For those that don't know about him: - he was an ancient historian - he made a lot of "wild claims" e.g. there was a tribe that made clothes out of human skin - historians assumed these were myths or exaggerated - recent research has shown that many of his wild claims were true (even…
Not contributing anything intellectually, but this article is a lot of fun to read when one mentally envisions the modern style, looks and meaning of the word Goths. > In 251 C.E., Roman Emperor Decius, his son, and most of his army were killed fighting Goths in what is today Romania, in one of the empire’s greatest…
> the Spanish for “bandit,” “helmet,” and “truce.” If they are bandido, casco, tregua they are identical to the Italian bandito, casco, tregua. The only difference is a d/t. Actually in Italy a cyclist and a worker wear a casco, but a soldier wears an elmetto. I googled the etymology of casco and it comes from Latin…
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 8, 10:39 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals reached?
#6 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 7, 20:09 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 7, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (96 checks) since.
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230 points and 202 comments; submitted by benbreen on Nov 7, 2026.