Genetic testing reveals awkward truth about Xinjiang’s famous mummies (Caucasian)

Khaleej Times ^ | 4-19-2005

[blam]

The skull of the "Beauty Of Loulan" has been reconstructed and shows a dark haired Caucasian woman. The Uighur's have adopted the woman (and image) as the mother of their country and her picture is now contained on their money and other 'official' documents.

BTW, I've read that some archaeologists believe that Caucasians actually originate in Gansu Province, China.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

The Curse Of The Red-Headed-Mummy

[Publius6961]

Do you know of any image on the web of this "Beauty Of Loulan"?

[pganini]

This should not surprise anyone. The "XiongNu" as the Chinese call it during the Han Dynasty had blonde hair (at least some do). After Han Wudi defeated the Xiongnu, it broke up into 3 tribes, one went east and became the latter Mongolians.

[blam]

"After Han Wudi defeated the Xiongnu, it broke up into 3 tribes, one went east and became the latter Mongolians."

I know there are many Chinese poems about the green eyes of the Han Emperors. BTW, the Xiongnu were the fiercest fighters of their period.

[blam]

Sand-Covered Huns City Unearthed (Xiongnu)

[spinestein]

[Yingpan Man not only had a gold foil death mask -- a Greek tradition -- covering his blonde bearded face, but also wore elaborate golden embroidered red and maroon garments with seemingly Western European designs. His nearly 2.00 meter (six-foot, six-inch) long body is the tallest of all the mummies found so far and the clothes and artifacts discovered in the surrounding tombs suggest the highest level of Caucasoid civilization in the ancient Tarim Basin region.]


Sounds like he was a Viking. :^)

[datura]

That fits pretty well.

[Right Angler]

The Vikings wear purple....

[blam]

"Do you know of any image on the web of this "Beauty Of Loulan"?"

I've posted her image before but can't find one presently. Here are some sketches of some of the mummies.

Chinese Mummies

"Sounds like he was a Viking. :^)"

They have been connected with the Celts of Halstatt, Austria.

[blam]

Christian Designs Found In Tombstones Of Eastern Han Dynasty

[paleocon patriarch]

Do you know of any image on the web of this "Beauty Of Loulan"?

[Graymatter]

Blond, Greek or whatever, he sure was headed the wrong way.
He was probably a warrior, whether voluntarily or not. Rich kings often paid good money for men like that, sometimes whole armies of them.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[Quixotical]

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[BradyLS]

Do you know of any image on the web of this "Beauty Of Loulan"?

I hear Bill Clinton used to date her...

[rdl6989]

Ping to myself for later.

[DannyTN]

China owes me retribution for taking the land away from my Caucasian ancestors.

[pganini]

There were the fiercest fighters in their period and Han almost lost if not for Wudi. He basically emulated their fighting style (light calvary brigades instead of mass infantry), incorporated their horses into the Chinese calvary and crushed them. They won the war with mostly about 40-50 thousand men against XiongNu's over 200,000 (outnumbering by 4-1). After that, part of Xinjiang today belonged to China and the Silk Road is opened to the West.

Yeah, there are traces of the Hun from Xiongnu as well as mongolians/Russians. Basically Kazhakstan, and people around taht region were the XiongNu's.

[blam]

"There were the fiercest fighters in their period and Han almost lost if not for Wudi."

He had the help of another Caucasian tribe named the Yuezhi who had already been beaten by the Xiongnu.
The Chinese came to know them as the greater and lesser Yuezhi, the greater Yuezi allied with the Han against the Xiongnu.