[blam]

This article fails to mention that the skeletons in this whole region from this period and earlier are Caucasian.

[pepsionice]

This becomes a huge puzzle...which the Chinese hate. If caucasians were around...where did they come from? And the fact that this is such an unusual tomb...leads one to wonder what caucasian society buries their dead in such a fashion.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

An excellent book on this subject by Elizabeth Barber:

The Mummies Of Urumchi

"From Publishers Weekly

In 1994, a most astonishing discovery was made in Western China. Incredibly well-preserved mummies dating back 2000 years were unearthed in this remote region mummies with large, colorful wardrobes, mummies that were distinctively Caucasian. The mystery of what six-foot-tall, fair-haired people were doing in China at the time took Barber, an expert on ancient textiles at Occidental College in L.A., to the desert city of Urumchi in 1995, where archeologists at the site hoped that her expertise might help them understand what these unlikely people were doing there.
She had excellent material to work with: the mummies were in such remarkable condition that they still had full heads of hair and beards, and their skin was only slightly weathered. Most had been buried with plenty of brightly colored clothes to wear (one man was buried with 10 hats, each a different style), which gave Barber a treasure-trove of textiles with which to work.
Barber structures her tale as a mystery, revealing information piecemeal until she presents her conclusions about the origin of the mummies. In the process, she treats readers to a lively story about the ebb and flow of ancient cultures, a story largely deduced from the development of weaving, dyeing, embroidery and fashion.
Barber's hypothesis about how Caucasian mummies wound up in Urumchi, which has something to do with the Silk Road, is so clear and logical that readers will be satisfied that all relevant possibilities have been thoroughly examined.
The only thing lacking is information on how to pronounce Urumchi. 16 pages of color photos; 50 b&w drawings.

Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

[maestro]

....This article fails to mention that the skeletons in this whole region from this period and earlier are Caucasian. .....

.....slaves.......experiements........Russians......

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"The bodies in the four coffins were all women, but researchers found wooden male genitals in the coffins along with other funerary objects."

Now that's kinky.

[SunkenCiv]

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