Posted on 10/24/2004 12:43:53 PM PDT by blam
China unearths ancient Caucasian tombs
AFP
October 25, 2004
BEIJING: Chinese archaeologists have started unearthing hundreds of tombs in an arid north-western region once home to a mysterious civilization that most likely was Caucasian, state media said Sunday.
The researchers have begun work at Xiaohe, near the Lop Nur desert in Xinjiang region, where an estimated 1000 tombs await excavation, according to Xinhua news agency.
Their findings could help shed light on one of the greatest current archaeological riddles and answer the question of how this isolated culture ended up thousands of kilometres from the nearest Caucasian community.
The tombs, thought by some to be 4000 years old, were first discovered in 1934 by a Swedish explorer, but virtually no work was done on them over the next more than six decades.
In 2003, a Chinese team started digging in the area, finding 33 tombs and nearly 1000 relics, but had to stop because of a severe storm, Xinhua said.
AFP
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Try Gog & Magog.
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"No, but this was about the same time Abraham left Ur, so could it be some other Hebrews?"
Semites maybe, but not Hebrews - Hebrew is a word that comes from Moses time, an Egyptian word, "Habiru," meaning "stranger."
I remember reading an article that stated the Scots and Irish are more closely related-genetically- to the Basques of Spain than the Celts of central Europe.
Don't remember where I read it but do remember reading it.
I read somewhere that Hungarians are descendants of Huns from Asia/Central Asia.
But, where did the Finnish people originated from?
I don't think so. Mythology has them immigrating from Spain when Spain was Keltic, before it was overrun by the Germanic tribes in the 1st to 4th century and then by the North Africans in the 7th Century.
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See my post #18.
Where do you think the people that were eventually identified as Europeans/Indo-Europeans lived during the Ice Age. Maybe Sundaland (a land area the size of present day India) until it went underwater at the end of the Ice Age and then these refugees spread around the globe.
The Ice Age occurred in (more or less) three stages, the last 'surge' 8,000 years ago opened up the Strait Of Malacca(sp) and they surged seaward toward India, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Europe. Some streamed up the river valleys of Asia and eventually across the 'silk road' (before it was a silk road) into the Middle East and Europe.
Dr Robert Schoch has a book titled, Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders, that has these same people taking their custom of pyramid building all over the world.
Sundaland may be Atlantis and Kennewick Man and his kin may have left during the first Ice Age 'surge.'
I will quote from Dr Victor Mair's book, The Tarim Mummies. "Narain (an Indian Archaeologist) argues that once one accepts the equation Tocharian = Yuezhi, then one is forced to follow both the Chinese historical record sources and the geographical reference of their (the Caucasian mummies) first cited historical location (Gansu) to the conclusion that they have been there 'from times immemorial'. Narain infers that they had been there at least since the Qijia culture c. 2000BC and probably even earlier in the Yangshao culture of the Neolithic. This would render the Tocharians as virtually native to Gansu (and earlier than the putative spread of the Neolithic to Xinjiang) and Narain goes so far as to argue that the Indo-Europeans themselves originally dispersed from this area westwards.
Possibly with a Merele Haggard CD, a six pack of pabst blue ribbon beer and some pork rinds.(Satire) Bush/Cheney 2004
Because they know there is a honkey in every wood-pile. Hell, why should they care, it's not helping their membership. Bush/Cheney 2004
Because they know there is a honkey in every wood-pile. Hell, why should they care, it's not helping their membership. Bush/Cheney 2004
Please excuse the triple post, but the wine in mighty fine. Bush/Cheney 2004
Still a cold and arid region...probably tough living. Those 'Europeans' may have been the dark complected, round-headed, Mediterranean people I ocassionally read about.
Hebrew refers to the descendents of Eber. The Chinese are identified by their prefix: Sino- comes from the Sinites.
I must be a self-loather :). Those damn dirty vermins! Is it a form of bigotry and racism to hate rabbits?
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