http://www.silk-road.com/22797.html
This is a rather long item, so I just pasted the URL for it.
Who were these people, and where did they come from? Where did they go to?
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Interesting. I believe these are the European mummies of Takla Makan in Western China. Nova had an interesting show about them in the last year or two. Info is at this site:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/
They probably came from Northern and Eastern Europe. Why they dissapearred is still a mystery.
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I don’t see much in the way of a possible debate here. I do see a question that is better suited for General Questions. Maybe you’ll find some answers there; maybe not. But let’s try and see what happens.
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