The Mummies of Urumchi
The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West
The Curse Of The Red-Headed Mummy
The Tarim Mummies by J. P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair
Baifu -Caucasian Mummies China
Early Cross-Cultural Ties Arise in China
China unearths ancient Caucasian tombs
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Centuries before King Tut ruled
Egypt, before the first Greeks or Romans laid foot on Italian or
Greek soil , the Urumchi Mummies were laid to rest, and there
they lay . The Israelites fought their battles for the
promised land, the Roman Empire rose and fell and there they
lay. In 1978 they began to arise from their graves and
proclaim boldly - "We lived!"
Tocharian mummies, Tarim Basin Mummies, Cherchan
Mummies, Takla Makan Mummies, the Desert Mummies, Qawrighut are
various accolades for the same group of fossilized people being
unearthed in North West China. Dozens of unusual, well preserved mummies have been
found in the Tarim Basin in north-west China ,a desolate and
inhospitable place: extremely dry, with very hot summers and bitter cold
winters. The Mummies are apparently of Caucasian Stock, in a land where
no Caucasian was supposed to have been.
In 1995
Proof of the mummies' origins came when DNA tests determined
that they were genetically related to present-day Europeans. How had
they died? Why did they settle in a desert so intensely inhospitable?
No one knows and probably never will for sure, speculation has lead to a
myriad of hypothesis' .
They are unusually tall given the time period from which they hail, when
people were generally much shorter than today. One mummy for instance,
found in a tomb with three females and an infant was 6' 6'' tall. A
woman discovered with him was 6' 2" tall.
The clothing found among them indicates an
advanced knowledge/method of weaving tapestry and the patterns
utilized are similar to those found amongst the Celts of the
British Isles, in particular that of Scotland with it's
traditional plaids. They were also Marijuanna users, at least
that's what a 2008 discovery of pot in one of their tombs would
suggest. {Huge
Stash of Marijuana Found in Ancient Tomb }
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One female wore a unusually tall cone shaped
hat similar to those we depict on Halloween witches, or wizards
of the Dark ages. Modern depictions of Wizards and Witches have
been successfully shown to have derived their attire from
ancient Persian Magi, who wore the conical hats found on the
Urumchi mummy. Connections to the ancient Hittites is also
hinted at, as well as the Scandinavian Laps {Lapland} where the
women still wear similar traditional headgear.
The Korean language is classified as a member of the
Altaic language family along with Mongolian, and Japanese
but also includes the
Finnish, and Hungarian languages of Northern and Central Europe.
Now that is quite bizarre in of itself , that groups of
languages separated by so vast a distance of Eurasia actually
have a common root language. Which of course is the hypothesis
of Language families - that members of the same linguistic
grouping sprang from a common ancestor language eons ago in the
dark mist of uncharted history.
Latin for instance is the demonstrable parent of the
"Latin" languages or Romance languages of Italian, Romanian,
French, Spanish ,Portuguese and some others as well as having
made a demonstrable contribution to the Germanic languages
{German, English ..} these languages all share a common
Geographic proximity. But --- Korea and Finland ?! Hungary
and Japan ?!
If one branch of Scientific study -Linguistics- states
that black is white, why then should another branch
-Archeology/anthropology- be so startled when it also uncovers
evidence that black is white ? Apparently in deep
antiquity Human groups migrated extensively across the Siberian
wastelands between Europe and Asia. The Caucasian Mummies of
Northern China , as well as the Altaic language family is living
{or mummified as the case may be} proof of this.
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