Posted on 12/24/2006 4:43:09 PM PST by blam
China striving for mummy identification
URUMQI, China, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A group of Chinese scientists are attempting to identify a 2,800-year-old mummy of an apparent Caucasian man found in an ancient tomb.
The well-preserved mummy, that experts said is likely of a shaman in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has been under examination since being found in 2003, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.
Especially intriguing to the scientists was the presence of a sack of marijuana leaves that archaeologists found buried with the leather-coat bound mummy.
"From his outfit and the marijuana leaves, which have been confirmed by international specialists to be ingredients for narcotic, we assume the man had been a shaman and had been between 40 and 50 years old when he died," noted historian Li Xiao explained.
Xinhua said that by examining the mummy, that was one of 600 found during the 2003 exploration of 2,000 area tombs, the scientists said they are hoping to learn more about the mysterious lives of historical shamans.
LOL, it was the Tocharians who supplied all the jade to the ancient Chinese dynasties. I'm waiting for some Peruvian jade to 'turn-up' there, that'll be the clincher.
you see? Proof positive that smoking pot turns you into a mummy. http://sacredscoop.com
Yeah, but mine is dressed like a Tocharian mummy. :-)
I don't usually have the chance to rise to that one but it has potential. Possibilities include: "So, did you inherit your Bonapartism or did you acquire it from subersive school teachers?: or "Do you mean in terms of one ten-millionths of the North Polar quadrant of the Paris meridian?" One of my favorite party games is finding a smug believer in Darwinian evolution and asking them to estimate the amount of "monkey blood" that flows in their veins. Then, keeping my face very straight, I ask for their estimate of the percent of "simianism" they inherited from each parent. This question invariably leads to considerations of other family members. Even among the most rabid evolutionists, brothers-in-law invariably have more (and more recent) "ape-ish" descendants.
It's Jerry Garcia. He only looked like a 2,800 year old mummy.
"Chinese seek identification of 2,000 year old Caucasian man"
Don't worry, the Chinese secret police will extract a confession from him, after which they'll sell his organs to wealthy Western buyers.
It has to be Tocharians. They lived in that area.
...or an ancient Siberian. Some of them were Caucasians. They've been found frozen and with small bags of pot. ...don't know why they (nomads) migrated all the way to where Scotland is now.
Yup. They were the northern leg of the drug trading route.
The people were called the Tocharians.
Uh, is that where we get the word 'toke' for the "shaman's" drug of choice?
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