Momias De Tharim

THE MUMMIES BLONDES of TARIM (CHINA)

The enigma of the mummies of the Tarim basin is one of the most persistent of the 20th centurybecause since almost the beginning of investigations these have been contaminated by political interference of all kinds that have shown the perverse use which has been made on occasions of the archaeological discoveries. As soon discover human remains of WesternCaucasians in the interior of Central Asia was no longer then something isolated, since there was evidence of its presence from the Siberian region of Afanasev to the center of the India, so it was known that the movements of the Indo-European tribes in primitive times had deeply reached the interior of Asiaup to the end of a great period of time, it was thought that the origin was in that regionand not today where fixed (in the southwest of Ukraine).The European expedition did not have means to be able to move the mummies, so it was limited to photograph them methodically and accurately. When the photos were studied in Europe the scientific community ignored them or paid them little attention. In those years, the largest of archaeology, the fascinating discoveries that were occurring inmiddle and Egypt attracted attention and the world was amazed as the unknown past of the first civilizations would step by step is revealing. Against the builders of the pyramids, the Monarchs that forged the first Empires, to cities of legend cone Nineveh or Ur whom you could import some pastors mummies found in a dusty desert?.
Mummies in the cemetery of river are small, up to now, the oldestdiscovered in the Tarim basin. Carbon tests carried out at the Beijing University show that the oldest part dates to 3,980 years ago. A team of Chinese geneticists has analyzed the DNA of mummies.
In spite of political tensions over the origin of the mummies, Chinese geneticist said in a report published last month in the journal BMC Biology that the people were of mixed ancestry, with someEuropean genetic markers and Siberia, and they probably came from outside China.The team was led by Hui Zhou of Jilin University in Changchun, with Dr. Jin as a co-author.
As the Group of Chinese archaeologists has excavated through five layers of burials, were found about 200 poles, each 13 feet tall. Many of them had flat blades, painted black and red, as the oars from some great galley that had sunkbeneath the waves of sand, told Dr. Mair.
Boats, laid upside down and covered with cow leather found at the bottom of each post. The bodies were inside vessels still with clothes that had been buried, were hats of felt with feathers, subject to the edge, with a similar amazing Tyrolean Mountain hats. They wore large layers of wool with fringes and leather boots. Underwear seems to have beenprovided by a seller of "Victoria's" the age of bronze, just an enough wool loincloth for men and skirts made with strands of rope for the Mujeres.Los modern studies did not actually begin until very recent times.
Rivalries between China and the former Soviet Union in an area, such as the of the Salt Lake of Lop Nor, where the Communist Chinese carried out its first nuclear weapons tests and in areasclosed to Westerners since 1949, they prevented an in-depth analysis of the existing remains
In addition the Chinese Government didn't have the slightest intention of supporting research on the mummies of the Tarim basin, ultimately remains of Europeans dealt and disputes with Russia in the 1960s were too serious to allow is that the first settlers of the region they resembled more a citizen ofMoscow that one of Beijing
After the incident of the Ussuri River in 1968, which was on the verge of provoking a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and China, investigations were cut root. Soviet archaeologists had done great work in the Siberian region of Afanasev, in Minusinsk and forests Altai, reaching the conclusion that peoples of Indo-European origin of Baltic and Nordic race and...