Niya Yields Buried Secrets (China Desert - Silk Road))

China Daily ^ | 3-12-2004 | Wang Shanshan

[blam]

"In 1996 researchers unearthed a clay castle in which wooden tablets inscribed with the long-dead Kharoshiti language were found. "

It is my understanding that the language of that area at about that time was Tocharian A & B. I wonder if this is the Chinese spelling for that language? The oldest paper ever discovered comes from this area and it has the Tocharian (Indo-European) language written on it.

[blam]

"some anthropologists speculate that the Niya people were of Caucasian origin."

No reason to speculate, just go to the museum at Urumchi and view all the mummies dug up there.(see below linked article)

The Curse Of The Red-Headed Mummy

[ancient_geezer]

Researchers have now found the vestigial remains of about 100 dwellings, graveyards, animal sheds, orchards, gardens, agricultural fields and lines of trees.

I got all that stuff in my backyard.

What I want to know is where's the "golden camel"?

[blam]

More about our red-headed buddies in the Chinese desert.

[blam]

"What I want to know is where's the "golden camel"?"

LOL. Dig deeper.

[Miss Marple]

China will rise when five stars appear together in the east:

You may now commence playing the theme to "The Twillight Zone."

[Servant of the 9]

My books give Tocharian as the language of the tablets discovered by Stein. Kharoshti must be a variant name.

So9

[Constitution Day]

Whoa!

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[Darksheare]

INteresting and weird.
It's surprising that the Chinese governemtn hasn't made much of an attempt to either destroy the site or suppress info about it.
Back when the first inklings were heard about caucasoid mummies being found in China predating some of the Chinese emperors, the government's response was pretty much, "There was always, and has always been only asiatic people in China's history, and there never were red headed mummies!"
(Afterwards they had a small lame stament about the hair being red stained from the years and that the mummies were asiatic in origin.. which promptly was refuted IIRC.)
/ at least that's the impression I get from the scattered info I recall seeing.

[farmfriend]

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[Fedora]

More about our red-headed buddies in the Chinese desert.

Thanks!--interesting. But did they find evidence of drug-dealing at this dig?--that would be the proof it's the same guys :)

[blam]

"There was always, and has always been only asiatic people in China's history, and there never were red headed mummies!"

Yup, that's still pretty much the 'song-and-dance' but it doesn't hold much water since Victor Mair looked in the unlit back room in the museum at Urumchi and found all the Caucasian mummies back there.

[blam]

"My books give Tocharian as the language of the tablets discovered by Stein. Kharoshti must be a variant name."

Thanks, I suspected so.

[Darksheare]

LOL!
Now THAT is a great find!
Didn't hear about that happening.

[blam]

"You may now commence playing the theme to "The Twillight Zone."

What flag is that?

[blam]

"Didn't hear about that happening."

Read the article linked in post #2.

Also here: Urumchi Mummies

[Miss Marple]

That is the flag of the Peoples Republic of China.

Doo-de-doo-doo,Doo-de-doo doo....

[blam]

More about Niya here and better pictures too.

[blam]

"That is the flag of the Peoples Republic of China. "

I looked it up. You're correct but, I always thought it had a hammer and sycle on it. Hmmmm

[ASA Vet]

What flag is that"?

One of John F'n Kerry's campaign flags.