Финно-угорский воин времен Гуннской империи (5 век н.э.).

FINNO-UGRIC WARRIOR, from the time of the Hunnic Empire (5th century AD).

Most European languages we know today (like the Romance, Germanic, Celtic and Slavic subfamilies, and the Greek language) belong to the Indo-European family, together with other languages mostly spoken in Iran and India (which form the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages). But there are some exceptions to this otherwise homogeneously Indo-European Europe. These exceptions are the Basque language, which is a Pre-Indo-European isolate (some extinct ancient languages like Iberian and Etruscan were also Pre-Indo-European isolates), but also the languages belonging to the Finno-Ugric family (examples of this linguistic family in Europe are the Finnish, Sami and Hungarian languages). The origin of Finno-Ugric peoples, who live scattered between north-eastern Europe and north-western Asia, is totally unrelated to the origin of the Indo-European languages. The origin of Finno-Ugric peoples is believed to be eastern Siberia, but they reached Europe thousands of years ago. Because the different Finno-Ugric subfamilies separated from each other in an early stage, and each subfamily received different external influences, the different Finno-Ugric peoples ended up having little in common. The western subgroups are very Nordic-looking, while the eastern ones are Mongol-looking. The northern subgroups were Arctic hunter-gatherers living in huts, while the Hungarians were nomadic pastoralists of the steppe and lived in yurts like the Scythians, the Turks and the Mongols, and others were agriculturalists living in wooden houses like the Germanic and Slavic peoples. Based on what the speakers themselves say, the different languages of the Finno-Ugric family are also as mutually unintelligible as Indo-European languages from different subfamilies (think of a Spaniard trying to understand Russian, Persian or Norwegian).

This warrior is reconstructed based on archaeological finds from Russia’s Ural Mountains, a region that came under the rule of the Huns during the Migration Period. The poorly made helmet is based on a find from the Tarasovo Burial Ground (replica made by Dima Hramstov), and the Sasanian sword is roughly based on an example found in the Turaevsky Burial Ground and others found in Hunnic-period graves.