04-December-2008, 09:29 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 8,580
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Serendipitously...
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December 4, 2008
...the ancient corpses on display seem to tell a different story...the Loulan Beauty...her high cheekbones and long nose the most obvious signs that she is not what one thinks of as Chinese...The ancient bodies have become protagonists in a very contemporary political dispute over who should control the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region...At the heart of the matter lie these questions: Who first settled this inhospitable part of western China? And for how long has the oil-rich region been part of the Chinese empire?...
San Diego Union-Tribune
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Last edited by sarongsong; 05-December-2008 at 02:40 AM..
Reason: map link; same region the shaman found.
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