the OLDEST written almas account is from a 1420s POW and nobody talks about it

Everybody's hot on the 1960s Mongolia stuff (the pediatrician Ivlov interviewing kids who all casually go "oh yeah the almas family", his own driver too) — fine, good, but I want to flag the deep cut because it's wild it gets skipped. The earliest WRITTEN mention isn't Soviet at all. It's Hans Schi……