I hate that I missed it. I might add that some of the 4,000 year old mummies in and around the Tarim Basin had the tall cone shaped (felt) hats. One of the mummies was named Woman With Ten Hats. Some of the hats were strange in that they had a double peak in the cone.
You would have LOVED it, I guarantee it. I wish I could see it again. That is one of the very few that I could watch over and over again. There's too much info to absorb in just one viewing.
What made it the most interesting to me is the fact that I believe there is definitely a link to "your" mummies. I wish they'd do comparison DNA with them, too. That explanation would make the most sense of what Caucasion people were doing up in that part of the world.
That little blond headed girl was so cute. Her impish grin was precious. And at the end when they showed her flying through the wind on that horse, you could see the regal pride in her. I wish somebody would see to her education.
Yes, I was almost screaming at my TV when they described some of the things about the Samartians because I was so moved that this might have a connection to the red-haired mummies and many of the other things that draw a much larger picture.
Another of the intense moments was when they were discussing the Illiad. In the Illiad, the Amazons are mentioned as being at Troy. Achilles fought the head Amazon and killed her, but as she lay dying and he removed her helmet, he fell madly and tragically in love with her. But after relating this story, they pretty much dismissed that the Illiad had any historical value and moved on.
However, we know that the Illiad was not all fiction! The Illiad was based on a very old tale, and the Amazons were part of the story. Throughout many of the ancient accounts, this race of nomadic people is mentioned in different contexts. It is possible that the same people who went to the Steppes went to the British Isles and, who knows, maybe America. There certainly seems to be alot to tie these groups together culturally and genetically and throughout an impressive span of thousands of years of practicing their primeval religion and lifestyle.