http://www.metafilter.com/tags/chinesearchaeology Posts tagged with 'chinesearchaeology' at MetaFilter. Mon, 07 Aug 2000 05:37:42 -0800 Mon, 07 Aug 2000 05:37:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/2755/The%2DMummies%2Dof%2Dthe%2DTarim%2DBasin <a href="http://www.kirby.on.ca/tbm/images.htm">The Mummies of the Tarim Basin</a> were discovered fifteen years ago by Chinese archaeologists working in the salty deserts of far western China. These bodies date from between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago and have been preserved so well in the extremely dry salty conditions that some of them look like they're still alive. Even more remarkable is that their clothing is still intact including tapestries and tartans. Finally these people were six feet tall, had long noses and fair hair and there is strong evidence that they spoke a language whose closest relatives are Celtic and Latin. tag:metafilter.com,2000:site.2755 Mon, 07 Aug 2000 05:37:42 -0800 archaeology brokenlink china chinesearchaeology chinesehistory languagehistory languages linguistics mummies lagado