Bartók had a suspicion

Other countries keep documents of our ancient history. They do not want to recover them because their content is not
"compatible" with the official history.The reason is obvious: those findings would change the artificial image of our origin.
Béla Bartók made extended researches into ancient music.He travelled to Arabic countries to collect folk music to
study the obvious similarities with the Hungarian music. These materials were hidden of the public for more that half
a century and has became available for the public only recently. Many maps came across illustrating the places
where our ancestors lived. Some of them are more than 2000 year old.
These maps are direct evidence for the assumption of Bartók.

The Hun Empire was huge and strong. The different tribes of Hungarians lived in cultural aura of the maqam.
The Hungarian music made influence on the maqam and vice versa, it got influences from the maqam.

It is an exciting question : What would our music be like now if the Hungarians had not came to the Carpatic Basin?

We can guess: cultural globalisation roots not in the spirit but the material. It is possible to demolish physical objects
with violence but it is not possible to kill an immortal substance like the music.

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