Ancient European Remains Discovered In Qinghai (China)

Xinhuanet/China View ^ | 7-6-2004

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"most interesting."

Glad you enjoyed it. Albeit....You're a little late to the party.

[Ciexyz]

You're a little late to the party.

Ahem, I ain't never late to no party, if the party's still goin' on!

Actually, I responded seven minutes after Sunken Civ pinged me.

[Cronos]

Archeologists confirmed that the human skeletons discovered this May in northwest China's Qinghai Province belonged to three Europeans who lived in China over 1,900 years ago.

Not so surprising -- there were emissaries sent between the Han and Roman Empires.

[Cronos]

?You talking about Nestorians, correct? Well, they would have come a bit later -- around 300 AD. Many of Genghis Khan's army were Nestorian Christians and the Persian Church was Nestorian.

[Cronos]

Also, I've read much speculation that the Mandans may be the remnants of the Prince Madoc (Welsh) group that came to the US in 1170AD...Lately I've read 540AD.

That's been proven to be a hoax, blam. It was no more than a lame British attempt to "prove" that they had the rights to North America.

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"That's been proven to be a hoax, blam. It was no more than a lame British attempt to "prove" that they had the rights to North America."

Could be. I certainlly have my suspicions too.

Now, I read somewhere that when Lewis & Clark reported back to Thomas Jefferson about their travels out west that they told him of blue-eyed Indian that they'd encountered. Jefferson said, "There'll be no more talk of blue-eyed Indians." His motivation were that it could open the door for other European countries to make a claim on western parts of North America.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

> Are there any records of Chinese travellers in Rome or
> elsewhere in the Mediterranean during ancient times?
> I would be surprised if there are not, but I don't know the field.

You might find this a good starting point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_embassies_to_China

[ThanhPhero]

They were buried in their Stetsons.

[SunkenCiv]

This is a nice intro to India; I've got to the midpoint (it's due back at the library in a couple of days, or maybe it's tomorrow) where the Yueh-chi / Tocharians / Kushans are discussed for a while.

...Kapisa, the summer capital of the Kushans. Here, in 1937, French archaeologists found the greatest single hoard of artistic treasures ever discoverd in Afghanistan: a wonderfully eclectic mixture of Silk Route artefacts... including a unique glass painting of one of the Wonders of the World, the Pharos of Alexandria. [p 119]

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India Michael Wood BBC DVD

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[SunkenCiv]

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They could be Romans.

Or they could be Macedonians from Alexander the Great’s army.

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See post #3.

I'm thinking those folks.

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I was thinking the Tocharians were too early but maybe not.

When the Chinese get around to some DNA testing we’ll see what they find.

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