Ancient City Reveals Life In Desert 2200 Years Ago
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Topic: Ancient City Reveals Life In Desert 2200 Years Ago
Posted By: Spartakus
Subject: Ancient City Reveals Life In Desert 2200 Years Ago
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2006 at 17:04
by Staff Writers
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.
http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Ancient_City_Reveals_Life_In_Desert_2200_Years_Ago.html - http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Ancient_City_Reveals_Life_In_Desert_2200_Years_Ago.html
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Posted By: Herschel
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2006 at 17:16
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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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 12-Jun-2006 at 00:46
Do they know yet where these tocharians came from???
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Posted By: Herschel
Date Posted: 12-Jun-2006 at 02:31
The various developing theories all seem to have a West to East connection.
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Posted By: YusakuJon3
Date Posted: 12-Jun-2006 at 20:04
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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