Authentic Khazarian iron axe with high carbon iron, this is the real deal from the Khazar of Southwest Asia!!! You can see condition from photos, this is very nice examples in stable condition. Khazar axes coming from Southwest Asia during this period can be distinguished by the oval hafting hole. The Khazar were a tribe that appeared in south-eastern Europe after the departure of the Huns (IV century) and lasted until the around 1100 AD. The Khazars (Turkish: Hazarlar, Tatar: Xäzärlär, Hebrew: כוזרים (Kuzarim), Arabic: خزر‎‎ (khazar), Persian: خزر‎‎, Greek: Χάζαροι, Latin: Gazari/Cosri/Gasani were a semi-nomadic Turkic people, who created what for its duration was the most powerful polity to emerge from the breakup of the Western Turkic Kaganate, the Khazar Khaganate or Khazaria. The tribes that were to comprise the Khazar empire were not an ethnic union, but a congeries of steppe nomads and peoples who came to be subordinated, and subscribed to a core Türkic leadership. Astride a major artery of commerce between northern Europe and southwestern Asia, Khazaria became one of the foremost trading emporia of the medieval world, commanding the western marches of the Silk Road and playing a key commercial role as a crossroad between China, the Middle East and Kievan Rus'. For some three centuries (c. 650–965) the Khazars dominated the vast area extending from the Volga-Don steppes to the east and the northern Caucasus. The eastern neighbors of East Slavic tribes who later comprised the Kievan Rus. At the end of 900. in the Black Sea steppes, they would come to control Pechenegs. The Khazar would considerably weakened Khazar Khanate. From the mid 900's they were strong contender to become the Khazar Russian (Kiev) state, with territory from Khazaria to the Caspian Sea. By the 9th/10th. C. all politics and economics trade in Eastern Europe was concentrated in the triangle of the Byzantine - Khazar Khanate - Kievan Rus. The balance between these states was broken with the weakening of Khazar Khanate and the growth of Kievan Rus. The native religion of the Khazars is thought to have been Tengrism, like that of the North Caucasian Huns and other Turkic peoples. The polyethnic populace of the Khazar Khaganate appears to have been a multiconfessional mosaic of pagan, Tengrist, Jewish, Christian and Muslim worshippers. In the late 19th century, a theory emerged that the core of today's Ashkenazi Jews are genetically descended from a hypothetical Khazarian Jewish diaspora who had migrated westward into modern France and Germany. This theory still finds occasional support, but most scholars view it with skepticism. Like all my antiquities this axe comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime money back guarantee, so buy with confidence!!