Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Soon our DNA will unlock the ancient migrations

Of nomadic tribes and ....Romans....

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Genetic testing of villagers in a remote part of China has shown that nearly two thirds of their DNA is of Caucasian origin, lending support to the theory that they may be descended from a 'lost legion' of Roman soldiers.

4 comments:

mahakal said...

Well before the Romans.

ellroon said...

Cool! I think these are of the same era as The Mummies of Urumchi, a text I read some years back.

Love this kinda stuff!

mahakal said...

Notice they were buried with lots of cannabis. :)

ellroon said...

I noticed. Obviously they thought it was important enough to have him take some with him!