Uttara Kuru

[Lars Martin Fosse]

>
>There were lot of  wall  paintings of people with a tilak. The
>mummies were more Caucasian than Chinese, also they had woolen
>clothes with designs which look exactly like Scottish kilts !!
>Another fascinating thing was a large bow that was shown, the
>shape of the bow looked exactly like what is shown on mythological
>soaps on TV in India (I am NOT kidding!! ). I had always thought
>bows of that shape would never work in real life !!
>
>Can anyone shed more light on these archeological finds.

I believe the journal Discover ran an article on these mummies (they were
called Tocharians) some time ago (make that perhaps 1-2 years). Check back
numbers of Discover!

Best regards,

Lars Martin Fosse


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