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    Posted: 06-Jun-2006 at 17:04
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Urumqi, China (XNA) May 31, 2006
Chinese and French archaeologists claim to have discovered the ruins of an ancient city which disappeared in the desert in Northwest China more than 2,200 years ago.
 
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Makes sense. The Tarim Basin is much more dry now then it was 2,200 years ago. Cities were abandoned by the native Tockarian peoples and left to bury under the shifting sands. This confirms their wealth as they traded jade and horses to China and silk to the Central Asian Greeks. They were NOT a nomadic people like the saka were, despite what Chinese chroniclers state.
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Do they know yet where these tocharians came from???
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The various developing theories all seem to have a West to East connection. 
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A theory that I've read seems to have them intermixing with a migrating nomadic people (Hsiung-nu?) and moving into the region of Afghanistan to form the basis for the Kushans who were to dominate the region from the 1st to the 3rd Centuries AD.
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