12-08-2006, 07:39 AM
Quote:Perhaps they are remnants of the Romans who fought against Parthia and sold to china as slaves. I can imagine a huge price would be paif for sucha novelty and the Parthians were very adept at trade. Celtic features were probably common among Romans, after all northern Italy was celtic long before the Romans.
No, this is nothing spectacular of that sort. This is simply a media source getting a hold of information and running with it.
Central Asian peoples, like Scythians and their related kin who lived in the Altai mountains around the 5th C. BC could be fair-haired and light skinned, just like many northerly Iranian peoples and other Indo-European peoples. Many mummies have been found on the borders of Mongolia and near China that have red or blond hair and light skin.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
