[MyTwoCopperCoins]

"They had taken the head off so that we would not photograph the Indo- European head, "Davis-Kimball says.

http://www.s8int.com/page26.html

[autumnraine]

Isn’t there an area of Asia that has red hair?

[Cementjungle]

...more than 200 remarkably well-preserved mummies discovered in the western deserts....

Somehow I'll bet ACORN is involved in this.

[PistolPaknMama]

GGG ping!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Roman descendants found in China?

[blam]

Tocharians

"Tocharian donors", possibly the "Knights with Long Swords" of Chinese accounts, depicted with light hair and light eye color and dressed in Sassanian style. 6th century CE fresco, Qizil, Tarim Basin. Graphical analysis reveals that the third donor from left is performing a Buddhist vitarka mudra. These frescoes are associated with annotations in Tocharian and Sanskrit made by their painters.There is evidence both from the mummies and Chinese writings that many of them had blonde or red hair and blue eyes, characteristics also found in present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Central Asia, due to the populations' high genetic diversity. This suggests the possibility that they were part of an early migration of speakers of Indo-European languages that ended in what is now the Tarim Basin in western China. According to a controversial theory, early invasions by Turkic speakers may have pushed Tocharian speakers out of the Tarim Basin and into modern Afghanistan, India, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan."

[RobinOfKingston]

... the oil-rich region ...

Ah, yes. The crux of the matter.

[ForegoneAlternative]

Not only that, but red-haired caucasian mummies who wore plaid.

No. Seriously. Saw it on Nova, like, ten years ago.

The Celts really *did* come from that part of the world, apparently, before they covered all territory west of there for a while.

Now there’s only various famous, heh, pockets, me boy-o.

[chesley]

Seemss to me that I read somewhere that Genghis Khan had red hair and green eyes. But I don’t remember where, and I doubt it was a reputable source.

Anybody know?