Miklós Kásler - Zoltán Szentirmay (szerk.): Identifying the Árpád Dynasty Skeletons Interred in the Matthias Church. Applying data from historical, archaeological, anthropological, radiological, morphological, radiocarbon dating and genetic research (Budapest, 2021)

Foreword

This is how the greatest Hungarians, King Matthias, Zrínyi,

Mihály Vörösmarty, János Arany and

nearly everybody knew and wrote about it, and yet after 1850, a dual perspective of our origins emerged. One side addresses the kinship with Finno-Ugric languages, which is also used to derive the ethnic kinship, while the other focuses on the Turkic kinship. The two were debated for 160 years yet completely ignored the Scythian-Hun origin. I did not understand how disciplines in a position to formulate a substantive opinion on the issue, such as history, linguistics, chronicles, folklore, folklore motives, folk music, anthropology and archaeology ignore each others findings, and instead of complementing one another, they tend to underestimate and even often discredit each others findings. At the same time, I did not understand why our history reflecting the Hungarian mentality and our insatiable desire for freedom was reinterpreted and frequently rewritten. I took the opportunity of conferences I attended to visit the coronation and burial sites - St. Denis, Reims Cathedral, El

Escorial, the

Capuchin Crypt in Vienna, Wawel Royal

Castle and many more - where the members of more fortunate nations may go to pay tribute to outstanding figures of their history. I felt immense sorrow that we cannot pay such visits to the tombs of our own glorious kings and dynasties, because their burial places were destroyed by history in many cases. I was downhearted to see the current state of the Saint Stephen Basilica in Székesfehérvár

and its sad fate, and I have always desired to have a national place of worship erected, a place of pilgrimage where we can pay tribute and express our gratitude.

Over the years I have devoted myself to medical sciences, more specifically to the most complex group of diseases: tumours. It was n