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

[HellLander87]

vulone gamo tin alvania sou.

[Rudel]

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



(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.



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.

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.