Author Archives: John Noble Wilford, Philadelphia
MUMMIES, TEXTILES OFFER EVIDENCE OF EUROPEANS IN FAR EAST
USA Â Face to Face With a Mysterious Desert People Recently found mummified bodies of people who lived 2,400 to 4,000 years ago in Tarim Basin region of Western China show them to have been strongly European in appearance, some resembling the Irish or. the Welsh. Their language, the now extinct Tocharian, also shows similarities to…
MUMMIES, TEXTILES OFFER EVIDENCE OF EUROPEANS IN FAR EAST
(Extracted from Science Times – The New York Times – Tuesday, May 7th 1996) Face to Face With a Mysterious Desert People Recently found mummified bodies of people who lived 2400 to 400 years ago in Tarim Basin region of Western China show them to have been strongly European in appearance, some resembling the Irish…
