Posted on 07/06/2004 11:02:03 AM PDT by blam
Glad you enjoyed it. Albeit....You're a little late to the party.
Ahem, I ain't never late to no party, if the party's still goin' on!
Actually, I responded seven minutes after Sunken Civ pinged me.
?You talking about Nestorians, correct? Well, they would have come a bit later -- around 300 AD. Many of Genghis Khan's army were Nestorian Christians and the Persian Church was Nestorian.
Could be. I certainlly have my suspicions too.
Now, I read somewhere that when Lewis & Clark reported back to Thomas Jefferson about their travels out west that they told him of blue-eyed Indian that they'd encountered. Jefferson said, "There'll be no more talk of blue-eyed Indians." His motivation were that it could open the door for other European countries to make a claim on western parts of North America.
> Are there any records of Chinese travellers in Rome or
> elsewhere in the Mediterranean during ancient times?
> I would be surprised if there are not, but I don't know the field.
You might find this a good starting point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_embassies_to_China
They were buried in their Stetsons.
...Kapisa, the summer capital of the Kushans. Here, in 1937, French archaeologists found the greatest single hoard of artistic treasures ever discoverd in Afghanistan: a wonderfully eclectic mixture of Silk Route artefacts... including a unique glass painting of one of the Wonders of the World, the Pharos of Alexandria. [p 119]
India
Michael Wood
BBC DVD
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They could be Romans.
Or they could be Macedonians from Alexander the Great’s army.
I'm thinking those folks.
I was thinking the Tocharians were too early but maybe not.
When the Chinese get around to some DNA testing we’ll see what they find.
Ping for later
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