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Reportedly there are villages along the Silk Road in remote western China, where some people are blond haired, blue eyed, descendants of lost (or decided-to-set

• hprotagonist 6y ago
  the "roman lost legion" thing is probably mythical. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/no-romans-needed-to-explain-chinese-blondes https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/no-romans-need...
  • supernova87a 6y ago
    Ah, interesting. Well, yes, UK Telegraph isn't the most reliable source.
    • mattlondon 6y ago
      > UK Telegraph isn't the most reliable source. Why not? As far as I am aware it is a legitimate and decent journalistic news source. It might have a political leaning, but for this sort of reporting I don't think it would give their preferred political party and leverage.
    • OJFord 6y ago
      Taking you very literally I don't know what the most reliable source is, nevermind claim it to be the Telegraph, but I'm not really sure what the implication is, or perhaps rather its reasoning? It's a perfectly respectable paper; (along with The Times) a paper of record.
  • zipwitch 6y ago
    That lost legion probably is. The ones Publius Quinctilius Varus lost (along with his head) are quite well documented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest
• Waterfall 6y ago
  There's even a village of Jews that was intergrated into society. East Asia likes Jews for whatever reason, even Japan an axis power didn't give them up.
  • supernova87a 6y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jews_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jews_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MApRCy3xq6c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MApRCy3xq6c Quite remarkable and unusual.
• DonaldFisk 6y ago
  The idea of a lost Roman legion in China isn't taken seriously by scholars. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqian Further west along the silk road from Gansu, the earliest documented inhabitants of Xinjiang were the Tocharians. They had brown, red, or blond hair, spoke two different Indo-European languages (Tocharian A and B), and were Buddhist. They're a more likely source of blond hair in western China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocharians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocharians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies
  • dboreham 6y ago
    The legion was lost in Scotland.
    • OG_BME 6y ago
      The legion was lost in Teutoburg Forest Quintili Vare, legiones redde! (Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!)
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• dghughes 6y ago
  The Tarim mummies. Many centuries ago about 3,800 years ago. I remember seeing one that had a large pointed felt hat like a stereotypical witch would wear. Being blond haired and blue eyed doesn't mean much though since there are some non-European cultures where it exists. Solomon Islands people, and I've known blond Lebanese people, supposedly there are some blond north African people too.
• Tagbert 6y ago
  There were people (Tocharians for one) in Central Asia and Western China who descend from Indo-European migrants from the Black Sea area.