[blam]

Suprise.

"which proved the three westerners had lived here for a long time and were accustomed to local traditions and customs"

These people may have established these traditions and customs.

[AppyPappy]

Uhhh, how do they know that the skeletons are westerners?

[Vigilantcitizen]

bttt

[catpuppy]

As their arms were posed in the traditional "hands up" position, experts have concluded that these were most likely French fleeing from some unknown ancient enemy.

[sphinx]

1900 years ago is not so long. Roman times. Trade goods floated back and forth across the deserts, mountains, and steppes, and the routes were well established. While most of the trade was presumably staged, at least a few adventurous individuals would have made the entire journey.

Have we found any graves of Asian travellers of the period in the West -- aside from remains of the warring steppes tribes, of course, who were rather spectacularly present?

[blam]

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Maybe they moved there to open a restaurant?

[FairOpinion]

"XINING, July 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Archeologists confirmed that the human skeletons discovered this May in northwest China's Qinghai Province belonged to three Europeans who lived in China over 1,900 years ago. "

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[maui_hawaii]

The earliest (known) contacts were via the cinnamon routes. It was a long LONG time ago. Its not inconcievable that someone, probably many actually, travelled back to China and just stayed.

[Artist]

I love stuff like this. Thanks so much for posting it.

[SunkenCiv]

	The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
	The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West by J. P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair

[Cronos]

Personally, I wouldn't call anything from 1900 years ago, ANCIENT. Mentally I classify anything pre-Christ as ancient, post-Christ as well, not ancient ;-)

[dfwgator]

So even then they had "running dogs of western imperialism" in China.

[wardaddy]

i knew it was you when i saw the header.

[jpsb]

"These people may have established these traditions and customs."

I doubt that, Chinese civilization is very very old, and pretty as advanced as western civilization at any given time, until the industrail revolution.

[Ptarmigan]

I wonder if these Tocharians went to Korea. Korea used to be really large, it spanned all the way to Manchuria, thousands of years ago. Actually, Manchuria was Korea. I notice Koreans have red hair. I know Arabs lived in Korea and married Koreans somewhere between 12th to 14th century.

[Cronos]

Archeologists confirmed that the human skeletons discovered this May in northwest China's Qinghai Province belonged to three Europeans who lived in China over 1,900 years ago.

Not so surprising -- there were emissaries sent between the Han and Roman Empires.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

They could be Romans.

Or they could be Macedonians from Alexander the Great’s army.

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