[blam]

Mair has written a fascinating book about this titled The Tarim Mummies, I highly recommend it. (I've read it twice)

[Vidalia]

This was covered by either the History or Discovery Channel not long ago and was quite interesting.

It sems as thought eastern integration of sorts was beginning from the western part of the Caucasus areas, but ended abruptly.

Not much info on my post, but it was a real "EYE OPENER", if you get my drift...

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[Cicero]

Fascinating read. I've made a hard copy for my family to look at.

[RightWhale]

Good post.

Looking at the Replogle globe, the distance these people travelled isn't really so huge, comparable to the distance from Alaska to Texas.

[freedom9]

They will most likely be found to be the forbearers of the oriental race.
No doubt a portion of them rebelled against god and were cursed. They were given a darker complexion and features to distinguish them from the righteous.

[expatpat]

Fascinating. Long, but well worth the read. It's surprising that there hasn't been more made of this in the media. PC problem?

[jimtorr]

Well, lots of people have said that the southern region between the Rhine and Oder was where the Garden Of Eden was located. Perhaps Mair is correct in his first map of what some call the proto-celts and others call the Indo-Europeans and others called the Scythians.

[Asmodeus]

"Laid out as if sleeping, Cherchen Man had his hands tied before burial to prevent the body from rolling."

[Asmodeus]

"A mummified infant boy was found wrapped in wool leading researchers to believe that the Cherchen mummies were of European descent. Sheep were not indigenous to that region of China."

[LostTribe]

>it could have come straight from the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Looks like you found another one, Blam.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Excellent post!

Oh dearest nopardons! A red-headed Tocharian ping to you! Thought you might find this an interesting read. Enjoy!

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Some have theorized that the nearby Pamir Plateau is the real origin of the Indo-Europeans, and not the Caucausus Mountains. I believe this was a relatively especially popular theory among late 1800's scholars.

[nopardons]

Have you seen the documentaries, about these mummies ? Isn't this the one, where the red headed, high priestess with the " witches hat " , was also found ? Or is that the companion film ?

[Amelia]

bump to read later...

[Hermann the Cherusker]

The connections Mair draws remind me of the theory of L.A. Waddell regarding the direct interconnections between the Sumerians, Indo-Aryans, Hittites, Phoenicians, Trojans, Britons, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Scots, Goths, and Norsemen.

One of Waddell's evidences is the similarity of dress, and the similarity relies upon items that reappear her in Mair's work - conical hats and woven cross-patterned garb. Waddell's conclusions were that the Hittites and Phoenicians were one and the same, that the Trojans were also the same group, and that Brutus the Trojan, the founder of the Britons and their first King in Britan around 1100 BC had journeyed there because of knowledge of pre-existing Phoenician mining settlements in Cornwall and elsewhere.

Of course, Waddell's works are now consigned to the Memory Hole, and the official histories of Britain begin with Julius Caesar "discovering" them in 55 BC, thus ignoring the ancient king lists going back to Brutus and antiquity. This state of historical destruction makes it difficult to understand some Shakespearian works like King Lear (a pre-Roman Briton King), the pre-Roman origins of London and other cities, and certainly obscures the history of the female figure Britannia and the name Albion.

[gcruse]

A long read but I read every word. I love this stuff. Thanks for posting it, blam.

[visualops]

[marked for self]

[blam]

Ping.

[carpio]

Bump

[Trailerpark Badass]

bookmarked for later