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To: Satish C. Shah who wrote (1738)	7/7/1998 9:10:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

Thanks Satish I will make sure I watch it. I believe it was Dulane who first brought this to my attention a while back. Here is his post with some links on the subject. exchange2000.com

To: Satish C. Shah who wrote (1738)	7/8/1998 10:54:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Uh Oh-Moral police on the prowl ! Satish: Looked for that NOVA program on PBS but they didn't show it here.Did you watch it, if so how was it? Now check this out: dailynews.yahoo.com

To: Satish C. Shah who wrote (1738)	7/10/1998 12:22:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

'Desperately seeking Susan'(read-cultural affinity)-Contentious and nonconformist view. Hi Satish: Finally saw the NOVA program on PBS yesterday about the 'blonde'(?) mummies found in Takla Makan desert. You are right that Buddhist cave depicts beautiful drawing of various people who might have passed through the area. The women particularly looked Indian with their Tikha (sp?) and the dress some painting of men and women looked Persian in their attire. I thought the other paintings depicting human figures found in the cave looked more like the central Asians,might be the Steppes or even Iranian,Turkish,Tajiks,Kazaks or the Monglian nomads or a mixture thereof more than Western European.They are trying to make assumptions here by looking at the face and hair of on the drawings in the caves which by the way were disfigured, due to age perhaps, and one can not make out the facial features by looking at them.The hair and beard looks kinda red but I can't say this is due to discoloration due to weathering or what. Don't quote me on this but this is seems like another attempt by you know to desperately find their place in the annals of ancient cultures of that part of the world.Mummies looked again central Asian. First it was the Indo-Aryan crap now this phweeeeew amazing ain't it.I could be wrong but you know I like to be contentious and nonconformist.<VBG> Takla Makan-Tocharian Here is an excerpt. "NARRATOR: A people long dead and neglected have emerged to reclaim their place in history, and radically change our view of a critical time. Inhabitants of the Takla Makan desert, ethnically European people, breached China's fabled isolation 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. Laying the foundation for the Great Silk Road, the mummy people shaped the very future of civilization. The mummies are a unique and irreplaceable treasure. Though we now understand something of their role in history, scientific examination of their bodies will doubtless yield invaluable insights. But inadequate conservation imperils the mummies' condition. No one knows how long before these ancient mortals disintegrate and crumble into dust, anonymous and evanescent as the drifting sands. Pics of Mummies pbs.org Transcript. pbs.org