Mumi

Mummies were buried with women who have thick brown hair that still looks shiny even after being buried for 3000 years. Found beside a wooden comb familiar to students of ancient Celtic civilization.



In 1978, in a quiet Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang region, China, was found five mummies are preserved very well. The strange thing is the national Celtic mummies from Europe that were located thousands of miles from the Taklamakan.


These mummies known as "Cherchen Man and Family". Total mummy found there were five. One man, three women and a baby. According to the researchers, these mummies are a member of an ancient tribe of Caledonia in central Scotland and was buried in that place for 3000 years.

The location of the mummy discovery is precisely the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang region, southwestern China. Ironically, the meaning of "Taklamakan" is "you go and not come out". This area used to be part of the silk road trade route traveled by the foreign nations who come to China. So really not too surprised when celtic mummies were found in the area.

The mummy of a man has a red-brown hair, high cheekbones, long nose and beard. Six feet high and buried with a red tunic shirt. DNA also helped prove that he was a Celtic.

Baby mummy wrapped in the grave with beautiful brown cloth decorated with red and blue and a blue stone placed on both eyes. Besides the baby was found a milk bottle made of lambskin.

Is remarkable these mummies, their bodies are much better preserved than the Egyptian mummies.

Victor Mair, an expert on ancient corpses and co-author of the book "mummies of the Tarim Basin," says: "Modern and Ancient DNA shows that the ethnic Uighurs, Kazaks, Kyrgyz and Asian populations is a mixture between the Caucasian and East Asia. "

So chances are they are the merchants who then lived in the area and gave birth to the tribes in the region.

Actually, this story is not so mysterious. But is not interesting, in a quiet Taklamakan desert, 3000 years ago, during which European culture is still barbaric and primitive, a collection of alien life is to live in peace in a foreign land too. Who are they? How do they live? Majukah how their culture and knowledge? How they got to the Taklamakan? Are they a family?

Corpse beside her with a comb and a dead baby with a bottle beside him. Is not moving?

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