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Unbelievable documentary about the Tocharian  ... all » mummies which have been excavated in N/W China.

Four thousand years ago, a community lived in the Tarim Basin -- in what is now the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China -- in the heart of Asia.

The Tarim Basin people thrived there for at least 1,500 years. There are indications that they survived as a culture even into the second century.

Then they disappeared.

Now their remains are being reclaimed from the sands, and the people of that extinct nation are challenging scientists and scholars to fathom who they may have been, and -- if an answer can be found -- where, in prehistory, they came from.

According to sweeping physical evidence, they were not Chinese. They were not even Asian (by todays standards for 'Asian')

They were Tocharians; they were Caucasian and, more importantly, Indo-European/Aryan. (A[r]sian)

Read the whole story: http://sln.fi.edu/inquirer/mummy.html 

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