Template:Did you know nominations/Alchon Huns

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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 01:11, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Alchon Huns

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Alchon king with elongated skull
Alchon king with elongated skull
  • ... that the kings of the Alchon Huns practiced artificial cranial deformation (pictured) to elongate their skulls? Source: "They issued coins showing their leaders with cranial deformation, their skulls elongated into a dome shape..." (p. 185, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila)
  • Reviewed: exempt from QPQ with 2/5 nominations

Improved to Good Article status by Alx bio (talk). Self-nominated at 22:01, 15 July 2018 (UTC).


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: I have tweaked the hook very slightly. A reasonably interesting hook and a clear image. Good to go. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:34, 15 July 2018 (UTC)