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Celtic mummies

The discovery of mummified bodies happens from time to time in many parts of the world. Recently were found in the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang province in western China, mummies ... white! What do these body naturally mummified, large Indo-Europeans, beautifully preserved despite their 3000 or 4000 years old (at the time of the Pharaohs) deep in Asia? 

The discovery of the bodies of the European type in thousands of miles away provides a glimpse the existence of a previously unknown link between the East and the West to the Bronze Age. The body of the man found mummified hair has a reddish-brown sprinkled with gray, high cheekbones, a long nose, full lips and a red beard. 

When he lived there 3000 years, it was nearly 2 meters. He was buried in a red tunic and cross-checked breeches. It looks like a European of the Bronze Age. 

In fact, it has everything a Celtic, even his DNA says. But it is not a question of a primitive inhabitant of central Scotland. This is the mummified body of the man Cherchen discovered in the desolate desert of Taklamakan. It now rests in a museum in the provincial capital of Urumqi. In the language spoken by Uighurs in Xinjiang Taklamakan means "we enter not out." 

There has extraordinary is that man Cherchen was found - and the mummies of three women and a baby - a burial site located thousands of miles 

east of the main Celtic settlements in France and the British Isles. 

DNA tests confirm that, like hundreds of other mummies in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, it is native to Europe. Nobody knows how he got there, or why, or how long he and his family lived there. 

But, as suggested by the name of the desert, there is never emerged. One woman shared her grave has light brown hair that give the impression of having been brushed and braided only yesterday for his funeral. His face is decorated with painted symbols, and stunning red dress funeral has not lost its luster over the three centuries during which this tall woman with fine features sat in the sand of the Silk Road. 

The bodies are much better preserved than the Egyptian mummies, and the show of infants something poignant. The baby was wrapped in a sumptuous brown cloth tied with red and blue cords, and placed a blue stone on each eye. Beside him was a bottle with a nipple made with the udder of a ewe. 

From the mummy, the museum has reconstructed the appearance of man Cherchen and lifestyle. The similarities with the Celts of traditional bronze age are striking. The analyzes also showed that weaving fabric was comparable to that of the clothing worn by the salt miners living in Austria in 1300 BC. AD