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PBS SECRETS OF THE DEAD: Amazon Warrior Women
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| 2004
| Kathy Svitil
Posted on 10/14/2005 9:42:13 PM PDT by LauraleeBraswell
The myth of the Amazons, a tribe of bloodthirsty blond women thundering across arid battlefields to the horror of their male foes, has lingered for centuries. Their exploits seized the imagination of the Greek scribes Homer, Hippocrates, and Herodotus. But proof of their existence had always been lacking. Now, a 2,500-year-old mystery may have been solved, cracked by an American scientist whose 10-year odyssey led her tens of thousands of miles in pursuit of the truth. After unearthing a culture of ancient warrior women in the Russian steppes, Dr. Jeannine Davis-Kimball followed a trail of artifacts to a remote village in Western Mongolia, where her quest for a living link to a long-imagined tribe ended with a startling discovery. There, among the black-eyed Mongols, Davis-Kimball finds a blond child, a 9-year-old girl named Meiramgul. Through DNA testing, Davis-Kimball find that the DNA sequences of the warrior woman and those from the girl of Mongolia are identical.
TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; sarmatians; scythia; scythian; scythians
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I happened to catch this special on Television tonight. I found it fascinating. And when I saw the clips of this girl I was shocked. She is 9 years old and has hazel eyes and blond hair. The rest of her family has the typical asian characteristics of black hair and dark brown eyes.
I happened to catch this special on television tonight. I found it fascinating on so many levels. And when I saw the clips of this girl I was shocked. She is 9 years old and has hazel eyes and blond hair. The rest of her family has the typical Mongolian Asian characteristics of black hair and dark brown eyes. The fact that a two thousand year old European influence still shows up in a few Mongolian people today is beyond surprising. And of course the myth of Amazon warrior women which turns out to be not really a myth at all.
To: LauraleeBraswell
Yeah but does she have an invisible jet or a magical lasso?
Did she star in a cheesy 70s sitcom, by any chance?
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:46:21 PM PDT
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
If this turns out to be the only reply I get- I'm posting it again tommorow morning. And I'm a product of the 80s- I have no idea what you are talking about.
To: LauraleeBraswell
The mystique is gone.
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:46:50 PM PDT
by
Tulsa Ramjet
(If not now, when?)
To: Tulsa Ramjet; writer33
Have all the serious people gone to bed?!
To: LauraleeBraswell
You never saw reruns of Wonder Woman?
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
To: LauraleeBraswell
Have all the serious people gone to bed?! Well to be serious, I always thought a race of Amazonian women was just a myth.
To: LauraleeBraswell
What's this guy's excuse?
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:53:43 PM PDT
by
Tulsa Ramjet
(If not now, when?)
To: LauraleeBraswell
Interesting. Are you familiar with the red headed mummies of China?
To: LauraleeBraswell
It's Friday. Interesting, but it's Friday night and we need a laugh.
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:58:46 PM PDT
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: LauraleeBraswell
""In the fifth century BCE, the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the author of the Histories, describes the Sauromatae as the descendants of Scythian fathers and Amazon mothers. Of course, this is a legend, but the nomadic tribe did exist and lived where Herodotus says it lived, on the plains between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, north of the Caucasus. The river Don divided the Sauromatae and the Scythians, the famous riders from Ukraine.""
-http://www.livius.org/sao-sd/sarmatians/sarmatians.html
This turns out to not be a legend anymore.
To: Welsh Rabbit
To: LauraleeBraswell
To: LauraleeBraswell
To: Xenalyte
Ancient Warrior Women Alert.
To: LauraleeBraswell
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:35:31 PM PDT
by
caryatid
(In the land of dreamy dreams . . .)
To: LauraleeBraswell
Wait a minute.
I understand how she got a DNA sample of a present day girl; however, I do not understand how she got a DNA sample from a 2,500 years ago, long imagined Amazon to match up with it.
But, it is late, and I just may be a little slow.
Or, there could be another ages old explanation: The gypsies left this girl where she is...
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:39:45 PM PDT
by
caryatid
(In the land of dreamy dreams . . .)
To: writer33
It's Chelsea's sister.
Web Hubbell really gets around.
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posted on
10/14/2005 10:41:55 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
('Deserves' got nothing to do with it.)
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