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The Mummies of Urumchi

Posted on 11/16/2004 10:35:31 AM PST by MacDorcha

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To: heartwood

Maybe they wore contacts.....


21 posted on 11/16/2004 11:03:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Give someone enough EU-ROPE and they will hang themselves......out of pure frustration......)
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To: elli1

I don't think my area has Lexis Nexis. We have Galileo. Only found the book, its out of stock.


22 posted on 11/16/2004 11:07:25 AM PST by MacDorcha
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To: heartwood

Red haired, blue eyed. Post 6 has the cover on it, save and magnify it. Mummy with the turban has blue eyes. A baby had blue marbles placed over its eyes.


23 posted on 11/16/2004 11:08:49 AM PST by MacDorcha
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To: MacDorcha

Here are 642 references:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=mummies+of+Urumchi&btnG=Search


24 posted on 11/16/2004 11:09:06 AM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: MacDorcha
Comments and discussion please, keep links to a minimum.

This sounds suspiciously like you want us to do the research for your term paper for you.

25 posted on 11/16/2004 11:10:48 AM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: MacDorcha

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3884bdeb2ecc.htm

Did FReep search for mummies. See above (from archives).


26 posted on 11/16/2004 11:11:47 AM PST by berkeleybeej
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

Ping


27 posted on 11/16/2004 11:12:31 AM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: FreedomCalls

3 of which i havent been to. All of those three are to crappy sites that mention it in passing. The majority of the rest I have been to the sites. There's maybe 5 articles. One from a PBS transcript about the scene, nothing about the origins. The others are conflicting. One says they are Celtic. The other states Celts came about some 1500 years later, so it couldn't be Celts. The last couple of articles are mainly about the book.

There is a reason I asked to keep links to a minimum.


28 posted on 11/16/2004 11:13:33 AM PST by MacDorcha
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To: FreedomCalls

No research paper, just an itch.


29 posted on 11/16/2004 11:14:00 AM PST by MacDorcha
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To: berkeleybeej

That was useful, thank you.


30 posted on 11/16/2004 11:15:12 AM PST by MacDorcha
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To: MacDorcha

I was married to one of them, just a gold digging bi#ch, that the short story. . :)


31 posted on 11/16/2004 11:15:35 AM PST by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: MacDorcha

Couldn't tell... the light from my torch was giving out.


32 posted on 11/16/2004 11:20:06 AM PST by johnny7 (“We blowed 'em up real good!” -John Candy & Joe Flaherty, SCTV)
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To: MacDorcha

The Curse Of The Red-Headed Mummy
The Birdman.org ^ | 5-18-2001 | Heather Pringle
Posted on 12/12/2003 9:21:21 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1039559/posts

several links:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1173106/posts?page=74#74


33 posted on 11/16/2004 11:26:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: MacDorcha
" The others are conflicting. One says they are Celtic. The other states Celts came about some 1500 years later, so it couldn't be Celts. The last couple of articles are mainly about the book."

They (the mummified people) are believed to have spoken Tocharian A & B. The oldest paper ever discovered has Tocharian written on it. Ancient Celtic is the closest language to Tocharian.

34 posted on 11/16/2004 12:52:41 PM PST by blam
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The Best book on this subject is The Tarim Mummies by J P Malloy and Victor Mair.

Victor Mair discovered these mummies in a back , unlighted room in the Urumchi Museum. He recruited a number of scientists to to go there and study these mummies. Elizabeth Barber, who wrote the book,The Mummies Of Urumchi, was the textile expert.

She reports in her book that the fabrics discovered on these mummies were the same (mfg technique, materials, style and color) as those found on the Celts at the famous site at Hallstadt, Austria....4-5,000 miles and 1,000 years away. Mair said that there is no linguistic or archaeological evidence for any sort of migration between the two groups.

Mair quotes an Indian Archaeologist (Narain) who thinks that all Indo-Europeans originated from the Gansu region of China. Excellent, excellent book.

35 posted on 11/16/2004 1:18:08 PM PST by blam
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To: MacDorcha
Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy

36 posted on 11/16/2004 1:24:45 PM PST by evets (God bless president George W. Bush)
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To: MacDorcha

Another idea (besides the excellent research xperts we have on staff here at FR!)-- you might want to run down some anthro/ archaeology profs on campus, Chinese history dept. types, non-western culture profs, etc. Depending on how proficient you feel you are at running searches, you might also want to enlist one of your university librarian's help.


37 posted on 11/16/2004 1:31:35 PM PST by elli1
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To: MacDorcha
My Theory, inspired by Dr Stephen Oppenheimer (Eden In The East and Out Of Eden) and Dr Robert Schoch (Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders), places these folks in Sundaland during the Ice Age...as Sundaland went underwater at the end of the Ice Age, some made their way up the river valleys and into China and some took to the sea and made their way to Europe.

Some made their way to the Americas also, Who Were The Si-Te_cah

38 posted on 11/16/2004 1:33:41 PM PST by blam
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To: elli1

I've run down a few. Lets just say, if they can be helpful, they more or less arn't helpful. They either haven't heard some of this type of findings, or are keeping their politically correct mouths shut until someone else makes their minds for them about if its worth researching or not.

I should invest some research time once I get finals out of the way.


39 posted on 11/16/2004 7:43:27 PM PST by MacDorcha
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