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

[Mortimer]

ITT this is what's going on here basically



So ethnocentric and absurd.

Forget what about Raine, but it seemed a bit weird to me that a major european newspaper wrote that. A english newspaper and about european DNA in ancient china etc. Thats why I wanted to hear opinions, I basically wanted to hear the refutation of it.

[zhaoyun]

Forget what about Raine, but it seemed a bit weird to me that a major european newspaper wrote that. A english newspaper and about european DNA in ancient china etc. Thats why I wanted to hear opinions, I basically wanted to hear the refutation of it.

It's sensationalism. And trust me, British "scholars" are the best at that. Because tabloid content sells well in their media, so they learn to sensationalize.

The Caucasian Mummies of the Tarim Basin during their lives, never were in China. That region was not part of China until the Han Dynasty, which is 200 BC, definitely not during the time of the Qin Dynasty, when the terracotta warriors were built.

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

greeks claiming everything from polar bears to chinese terracotta art

[wvwvw]

Forget what about Raine, but it seemed a bit weird to me that a major european newspaper wrote that. A english newspaper and about european DNA in ancient china etc. Thats why I wanted to hear opinions, I basically wanted to hear the refutation of it.

It is actually CHINESE archeologists, that say that. Did you read the article? The Terracotta army was known for a long time. Now archaologists think it is very likely that Greeks helped train the locals build it.

That Greeks helped build the Terracotta army does not mean that civilization was introduced to Chinese by the Greeks. It means that Greek was the most advanced and far reaching civilization of the Ancient world. Even the word Tao in Chinese is an Indo-European word for Dias/Zeus, much in the same way Deys Peter is for India.

[wvwvw]

Chinese claiming Greeks helped build the chinese terracotta art

Fixed.

[Queen B]

greeks claiming everything from polar bears to chinese terracotta art

It was neither Greek archeologists claiming that, neither Greek newspapers writing that.
So, don't blame Greeks if other nationalities uses us a click-bait.

[Jehan]

No, Greeks were not in China. And about the Caucasian mummies in Xinjiang, that region was on the fringes of Chinese civilization, to this day, ethnic groups in that region are Caucasian-Mongoloid hybrids.

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?

[wvwvw]

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 Romans followed in the steps of Ancient Greeks and went as far as America and Japan.

[Kamal900]

No such thing as a Greek Bactrian, and there never was!

Uhh, yes, there was. They are known as Greco-Bactrians, and there were Greeks living in North-West India, Pakistan and Afghanistan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom

[wvwvw]

When pankration first hit the martial arts scene (the mid seventies) it ran into prejudice.

Eastern marital artists looked down upon it as an attempt by Westerners to assert some sort of superiority over the "invincible" martial arts styles like kung-fu or karate, and found the idea that pankration could somehow be responsible for the creation of kung fu and karate unthinkable!