Ancient Greeks may have built China's famous Terracota Army 1.500 years before Marco Polo

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Originally Posted by Danielion

And it isn't as far-fetched neither. Ancient Greeks were a curious exploring civilization.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...aic_Period.png

(also old news, just a reference)

Yeah, nothing to do with Alexander's successors founding Hellenic kingdoms at the edge of the Chinese sphere of influence.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...KingdomMap.jpg

It's well known that Greek sculptural techniques flowed into India and China via Buddhism and the trade routes.
I don't know that craftsmen from the Ferghana valley (closest Greek or Greek-influenced spot to China) would actually go to Xianyang (an extremely long travel) for a bunch of clay statues, but it's possible the skill was transferred.

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Originally Posted by Jehan

I read a "legend" some time ago about a chinese ethny in the east. They looks caucasian, and they might be descendant of a "lost" roman empire legion who mixed with local poulation.
Did you heard about them?

The Tarim basin has been inhabited by Caucasoids or admixed Caucasoid-Mongoloids during the Bronze Age before being supplanted by Mongoloids.
The same pattern happened later on all over Central Asia, with nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoral tribes continuously moving southwestwards.