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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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28 Aug 2006 03:50:13 AM |
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Taklamakan |
A meeting of civilisations: The mystery of China's celtic mummies
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1222214.ece
The discovery of European corpses thousands of miles away suggests a
hitherto unknown connection between East and West in the Bronze Age.
Clifford Coonan reports from Urumqi
Published: 28 August 2006
Solid as a warrior of the Caledonii tribe, the man's hair is reddish
brown flecked with grey, framing high cheekbones, a long nose, full
lips and a ginger beard. When he lived three thousand years ago, he
stood six feet tall, and was buried wearing a red twill tunic and
tartan leggings. He looks like a Bronze Age European. In fact, he's
every inch a Celt. Even his DNA says so.
But this is no early Celt from central Scotland. This is the mummified
corpse of Cherchen Man, unearthed from the scorched sands of the
Taklamakan Desert in the far-flung region of Xinjiang in western China,
and now housed in a new museum in the provincial capital of Urumqi. In
the language spoken by the local Uighur people in Xinjiang,
"Taklamakan" means: "You come in and never come out."
Taklamakan OR "Takla Makan"
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Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/0566c3afe4d81c92
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