Perhaps there was plenty of water in the region during their time.Maybe they used boats in their everyday life. Deserts don’t support trees so wood would not be available. The clothing doesn’t look like anything worn by desert dwelling people.
@muqeo
8 ай бұрын
💯
@myriamickx7969
8 ай бұрын
Maybe there were even lakes or rivers which later disappeared as a result of climate change.
@raclark2730
7 ай бұрын
They could represent solar boats as are found in some ancient traditions.
@harry130747
7 ай бұрын
It must have been dry or the mummies wouldn't have survived.
@beetafly2
3 ай бұрын
There's a lot about history that we don't know or quite understand.........
@ulexite-tv
8 ай бұрын
Title: "Finally Solved." Script: "Not fully solved." Editor: "Make up your mind!"
@dianelipson5420
8 ай бұрын
To be fair? That’s just called Archeology? I don’t necessarily agree with the sensationalist speculation, but at least the guy doesn’t click bait and tease. Miniminuteman might be a lot more constructively critical, tho.
@minecraftingmum5574
8 ай бұрын
In order to raise cattle, sheep, wheat and millet water is required. This is the problem with looking at the past from the point of view of now. Too often we forget that the climate has been in Flux forever, not just now. We make assumptions based on our current, modern way of thinking and miss the obvious. This was an area of water. Lakes, rivers etc. Trees grew there, hence the boats. It was colder too, hence the woolen clothing. The clues are there.
@jenniferbennett9602
8 ай бұрын
Lots of wood here. Was it even considered that it was not a complete dessert and there were lakes and trees nearby
@Manuka-px2pe
7 ай бұрын
No germanics
@poorman7526
Ай бұрын
Eaxactly!!! Back then the desert wasnt as dry and hot. It was very different
@charliecharles9738
8 ай бұрын
4000 years ago the environment may have been very different. There may have been rivers and lakes. Just because it's desert now, doesn't mean it was then... Perhaps?
@peternolan4107
8 ай бұрын
Two excellent books about this: Elizabeth Wayland Barber, The Mummies of Urumchi, 1999. J. P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, 2000. There are undoubtedly many new developments since these books were published, but still lots of interesting information about linguistics, the Silk Road, the Tocharians.
@summerman2
8 ай бұрын
It probably was not a a desert back then. Very interesting
@elenabaker3967
Ай бұрын
Agree
@annepoitrineau5650
8 ай бұрын
You say they used woven wool...and showed us knitted wool lol. These mummies are fascinating. We need to learn more about them.
@robertdewitt6188
8 ай бұрын
While the find is fascinating, the theories of the speaker has to many problems to be taken seriously. Were the coffins really boats, the badly dated Vikings, the lack of a map, the lack of climate data for that period, and so on, is very poor science.
@roysnider3456
8 ай бұрын
I really don’t get it, if the area were desert back then there wouldn’t be any trees to make into boats that would mean the a stone and bone tool culture spent a lot of time and energy hauling boats into the middle of a desert and that just doesn’t add up to me.
@muqeo
8 ай бұрын
their felt hats look Peruvian
@Bakedea87
5 ай бұрын
Chinese and Native American cultures have a lot in common.
@Ellie-o1i
18 күн бұрын
@@Bakedea87 not at all and these ppl werent chinese
@IDD.Bronze.Sculptures
8 ай бұрын
Their clothes look so modern and wouldnt be out of place today. That child looked like it had sun glasses on.
@lynnestamey7272
8 ай бұрын
This is amazing. Now I wonder about what else could be discovered.
@winstoncrane7803
7 ай бұрын
Imagine what else the Chinese government wants to hide.
@emmahardesty4330
8 ай бұрын
Glad you talked about those people but maybe tighten up your info. Good book: The Mummies of Urumqi.
@vipertwenty249
8 ай бұрын
Ancient cultures do not care about modern politics. They were what they were and that is all that mattered to them. China should celebrate the great diversity of the cultures and histories of its people.
@knife-wieldingspidergod5059
8 ай бұрын
Only when they fall within the party's doctrine.
@vipertwenty249
8 ай бұрын
@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 There is a difference between foolishness and stupidity. If the Chinese Communust Party can only think of that then it falls into the Stupid category.
@walkertongdee
8 ай бұрын
Not boats silly, many tribes still inter their dead in hollowed-out trees, it is a somewhat common practice that still happens today here in northern Thailand with the Akha hilltribe people.
@mkuti-childress3625
8 ай бұрын
I think the oars made the boat hypothesis more plausible. But you’re right, it could be something completely different. I’d love to see the actual research and why they concluded what they did.
@riikkaalanen3429
8 ай бұрын
Xiaohe means “small river”. There used to rivers and lakes where there’s now only desert. Shaping the coffins like boats makes some sense in that respect because they very likely were meant as boats or something similar, maybe who knows, carrying the dead away in some spiritual sense - or maybe just because they came in handy. So yeah, I’d love to know a bit more about the scientific reasoning behind the interpretation presented here.
@weirdredpanda
8 ай бұрын
Fascinating! I don't think that I had ever heard of these mummies before. And of course, the Chinese government is limiting access to them. 😒
@rosescott9299
8 ай бұрын
They are commonly referred to as to as the Tarim mummies and have been famous (among people who study such things) for some time. The Chinese have allowed outsiders to study their DNA since 2007, and since then many studies have taken place.
@weirdredpanda
8 ай бұрын
@@rosescott9299 Thank you. So the video isn't completely accurate.
@DiscoveryFuture
8 ай бұрын
www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/tarim-basin-mummies-dna-archaeology Check out the last part of the article.
@susanjane4784
8 ай бұрын
I'm a bit bothered that there was no presentation of geography. A map with a single pin does not provide enough information. Were there rivers? Any bodies of water? Where did their irrigation water come from? The mountain people were located where? Also, a better genealogical map would be helpful featuring even general percentages -- flashing a European map is not good supporting evidence.
@TheOtherKine
8 ай бұрын
It's a fricking desert. LMAO
@raritica8409
8 ай бұрын
China really doesn’t want to have to change the narrative of their “independent history”.
@esbliss13
8 ай бұрын
Was it a desert when they lived there?
@TheOtherKine
8 ай бұрын
@@esbliss13 Yes.
@gordonbrunner9429
8 ай бұрын
...very interesting ...would love to see this
@DiscoveryFuture
7 ай бұрын
So do I
@clairemercer3099
8 ай бұрын
All you need is one river for them to use boats. When the river dries up the city ends up being abandoned.
@jasonhare8540
7 ай бұрын
So if I'm understanding this correctly these people are the ancestors of everyone from the Portuguese and the French and everyone else in the low countries all the way out to the Alti mountains with traces of Native American . I mean is this the base camp everyone's ancestors gathered at after we left Africa . A default Eden if you will though I hate to use the term due to the connotations. *If these people existed far back enough in time that they carry genetic markers of indigenous Americans there is no way they saw Vikings because Vikings didn't exist yet . Water is seen as sacred in places where there's not a lot of it . That's why it was so important to the Persians and the Egyptians and everyone else in that region. It's far more likely it was seen as a type of heavenly relief from a desert environment than was inspired by Vikings . I mean if they're carrying genetic markers of indigenous Americans that is well before the Viking age .
@esbliss13
8 ай бұрын
What was the climate like when they lived there? Some places the climate has gone from temperate to very dry.
@TheOtherKine
8 ай бұрын
Incredible!!!
@YooAKang
Ай бұрын
Have found any weapon or agricultural tools? Andy dwelling site? Thanks
@dianelipson5420
8 ай бұрын
Why can’t all click bait be like your clickbait? And then you actually deliver? No teasing? Damn good. Subscrimbo.
@shawnstine3244
8 ай бұрын
Vikings in 2000 BCE? That's reaching for straws😂
@oltedders
8 ай бұрын
I thought they came from the Eurasian steppes.
@DCrypt1
8 ай бұрын
Who said anything about Vikings? I too thought Eurasian Steppes.
@alexandergutfeldt1144
8 ай бұрын
@@DCrypt1The Narrator mentions the vikings as possible influence or inspiration for the boats. I too think that is unlikely!
@bryanm5233
8 ай бұрын
@@alexandergutfeldt1144. Since we’re reaching for straws, maybe they influenced the Vikings? If they were from 2K BC, maybe there were rivers close by.
@stephanieyee9784
8 ай бұрын
@@bryanm5233, If they lived in the middle of an Asian desert and no one knew of their existence until the 20th century it's highly unlikely Norsemen knew of them. Perhaps there was a small river that ran through the territory at the time of their existence.
@apaisarachannel5525
7 ай бұрын
We native of Sarawak Malaysia Borneo called Iban have a similar coffin like boat to put the death and than place inside the cave or familiar place to the deceased at the hill or mountain. Maybe we related to this ....
@MichaelWinter-ss6lx
8 ай бұрын
Was that 3000 to 1500 BC ? They could not have seen Vikings, as these go back only to 1200BC. Also not possible that they immigrated to America, as that happened at a much earlier time.
@darylkeeton8658
8 ай бұрын
Yes it seems that the silk road is a lot older than they say
@sentimentalcircuscurator
7 ай бұрын
Umm... did they have viking dna as well?? Because the boats....thats how we buried the dead, in the old asatro/norse gods, with the difference that we also burnt the whole thing. And we DID go to asia as well, I believe? wasnt there a small jade buddha statue found in an old viking grave here in the north ? We went EVERYWHERE. And sometimes, we stayed. That tattoo, on the mans skull, is that a dragon or just a spiral ? It actually kinda sorta looks like something that could come from us. Or some culture similar to us. The way they wear their hair/hairstyle also reminds me of this preserved scalp by a woman I once saw at a museum here. They had some of her bones, but the main thing about her was that her head of hair was so well preserved, that even her hairdo and the long strips of fabric/ "ribbons", keeping it in place was fully visible. It was the first thing I thought of, when I saw this. Maybe they all got sick, by some disease, or maybe their source of water got unexpectedly poisoned ? It could have been a matriarchy, and so their queen or priestess got the most thourough embalming. Did they have celtic ancestry by any chance ???? The thing on the side of his skull looks familiar somehow, but I dont know from WHERE excactly. This is VERY interesting.
@greensage395
7 ай бұрын
Seems like a ton of trees went into making these....what kind of trees, and where did they originate?
As someone else said already, it was not a desert when the people came there. It's a "basin" meaning that water flowed there. At least one river flowed nearby, and there was probably a larger body of water somewhere nearby. The pictures taken when that cemetery was first discovered showed leaves against the fence, showing that there was woodland nearby. They would not have been wearing wool felt clothing in a desert. The carts they used which were found in some of the burials were exactly the same as the ones the Uighur people used still in the 1990s. It's pretty clear at this point that the buried people were the ancestors of the Uighur people, and the ancestors had lived where the Uighur people lived later on. But China took over that area a couple of hundred years ago, and during the past hundred years have enslaved the Uighur people, forcing them into prison camps. I hope the world will wake up and do something about it.
@poorman7526
Ай бұрын
Uhhh back in ancient times, the desert wasnt a desert yet. It was a desert but not as dry and there were more rivers and forest
@kubhlaikhan2015
7 ай бұрын
The boats are clearly indicative of the fact that a waterway once existed stretching all the way from Tarim through the Aral and Caspian to the Black Sea. Contemporary Greek legends attest to travels along this route. It would have been nothing less than an inland sea at the end of the Ice Age, dwindling ever since (and still dwindling today with the drying up of the Aral and receding shorelines of the Caspian). Flood and subsequent drought also explain why half the Tarim population fled to North America and the other half sailed beyond the Pillars of Hercules.
@elzaaltmann
8 ай бұрын
Heard something similar about a woman with bright red hair and probably thought of as a queen
@Laura-y4h
4 ай бұрын
There were tattoos on some of them, which some have posited were for purposes of healing. In another, and much better documentary about these mummies, the suggestion was made that the Caucasian people descended from them had intermarried with Asian people and their genes were incorporated over many years into the larger population among which they lived. I like that idea. In other areas excavated they were buried into the ground in rock or timber lined tombs. Caucasian and Asian were buried together, indicating shared lives and a shared society.
@mauijonny
8 ай бұрын
Where'd they get all of that wood?
@galeocean4182
8 ай бұрын
excellent question
@qooguy
8 ай бұрын
Finally Solved? Video's conclusion: "We may never know why boats..."
@winstoncrane7803
7 ай бұрын
Diverse group but closely related, strange clothes and burial practices for where they are. The boats resembles Egyptian but burial practices are like norse.... raises more questions than anything. I'd like to know how they all died, the girl looked rather young.
@zasmirko100
3 ай бұрын
Buried in boats - common in old Scandinavian ("wiking") burials.
@jannetteberends8730
8 ай бұрын
The casket were boat shaped. That doesn’t mean that it are boats. The form can be just something that developed that way over time. The form follows the body. Just like coffins of today.
@galeocean4182
8 ай бұрын
do the paddles suggest boats to you, or do you have an alternate explanation for those? I thought they looked like boat paddles
@Northmanson1066
7 ай бұрын
The are an Indo-European people that originated in the Steps of East Asia (Siberia.) These people went into Europe, Anatolia, India and China.
@galeocean4182
8 ай бұрын
I'm so sad to learn China is making these mummies into a political quagmire. They deserve to be celebrated, studied and preserved. I'm afraid the govt. will disappear them. I heard about them many years ago and wondered about them. Thanks for the update.
@annepoitrineau5650
8 ай бұрын
Descendants of the Hittites, who sort of disappeared after their defeat? On the other hand...the Norse people went everywhere...
@Itsnotapet
5 ай бұрын
Theres literally maps from ancient times showing there were rivers and lakes there
@lindajesse8250
8 ай бұрын
Clearly distinct
@harry130747
7 ай бұрын
Where did all this wood come from in a desert?
@melaniesmith1313
8 ай бұрын
They moved around.
@westaussie965
4 ай бұрын
BC not BCE
@raritica8409
8 ай бұрын
Ancient Celtic people
@yahwea
5 ай бұрын
Did that last mummy have a pair of chop sticks? I know in old Japan one traveled with chop sticks.
@skydivingcomrade1648
8 ай бұрын
China (the current land mass) has always had a variety of peoples and cultures, it isn't until post WWII and the rise of communist Chinese party that the Han have been able to push others out of their lands.
@theforestdweller625
7 ай бұрын
It just shows China is bigger today than what it use to be. These people could have been a werry eastern outpost of the people living north and vest of where they are found.
@gardenlifelove9815
8 ай бұрын
They went to valhalla
@gayleblack1919
7 ай бұрын
2000bc, the area would be very different from the desert. If they can find whale bones in the desert why not sea fairing people.
@allhailqueenhelga
4 ай бұрын
"they may have encountered the vikings" has so many layers of shit wrong with it i dont even know where to begin.
@timkbirchico8542
7 ай бұрын
dubious political references.
@ottodidakt3069
7 ай бұрын
they could very well be a travelling group, I don't see any evidence that they where settled ? you mentioned Vikings, who indeed did travel not so far from those regions, and who where a diverse group of people, "Viking" being an activity and not an ethnic belonging even tho it originated in Scandinavia and was culturally mainly that. The time frame given by the sites dating makes it possible. And whose to say that the Vikings where the only travelling groups ?
@comfortablynumb9342
8 ай бұрын
Maybe they built the boats in case of a flood?😂
@arseniofernandezpaco987
8 ай бұрын
Yeaaaahhhh😎
@jaynorris3722
8 ай бұрын
Vikings, hey why not that got around. Always going, never arriving.
@seventen7195
4 ай бұрын
tocharian language
@wcfields4469
7 ай бұрын
Maybe they weren't boats. And where did they get wood
@alisn.7998
8 ай бұрын
Why is it reaching for straws? One should always, surely, keep an open mind. After all, these people were found in an area apparently alien to them, and had small boats, for some reason, in what was presumably desert 4000 years ago. Maybe they were passing though? Who knows? Stranger things have happened than them possibly knowing about seafaring Vikings.
@GerbenWulff
8 ай бұрын
Those seafaring Vikings didn't live yet in that era. So, unless they had invented time travel, that would have been impossible. Boats are used in many cultures as a way to reach the afterlife. Egyptians buried boats with their pharao's as these were deemed necessary to reach the afterlife. In ancient Greek mythology a ferryman brings the dead across a river to the afterlife. In some old cultures the dead were put on boats which were set on fire and left to flow down a river, or out with the tide.
@MichaelWinter-ss6lx
8 ай бұрын
Vikings as such started not before 1200BC.
@stephanieyee9784
8 ай бұрын
@@MichaelWinter-ss6lx, incorrect. The "viking" were mainly active from around the 9th century until the 11th century. However, they were already raiding what is now England in the 8th century.
@SacredDreamer
8 ай бұрын
2000 B.C. = Bronze Age. These are the survivor bloodlines fromThe Great Flood. .. (The Photographs are The most Extensive ive seen ! Thank You so much for your video.
@DiscoveryFuture
8 ай бұрын
You're welcome.
@SacredDreamer
8 ай бұрын
Think of it this way. WHERE did they get the wood from if they were in the desert 🤔 AND , where did the get the clay from They survived The Great Flood. Their descendants used Their boats as their coffin, and the Oar as their Marker after death, in Rememberance. ... And the clay ,, well, what do we get at the water table - CLAY. 🤔 I wonder if anyone has analysed the wood yet, be interesting to see what trees they are.
@stephanieyee9784
8 ай бұрын
Oh please. Survivors of The Great Flood?
@SacredDreamer
8 ай бұрын
@@stephanieyee9784 Yep. "Yu the Great - Wikipedia" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_the_Great
@esbliss13
8 ай бұрын
The Great Flood refers to the end of the last ice age when water levels rose. 😉
@antoniotorcoli5740
8 ай бұрын
I stopped watching when they said they met the Vikings
@livinginthenow
8 ай бұрын
Uyghur is pronounced WEE-ger, not OY-ger.
@westaussie965
4 ай бұрын
Who cares
@livinginthenow
4 ай бұрын
@@westaussie965 The Uyghur people care, that's who.
@davesky538
8 ай бұрын
DNA don't lie
@zarb88
8 ай бұрын
you would have been a superior juror on the o.j.simpson case.
@elenabaker3967
Ай бұрын
The Chinese government should be approached again so more research can be done. The warriors have bought a lot of tourists to China as well as money. Perhaps approaching China with the idea of tourists and money might allow more research.
@ellen4956
14 күн бұрын
No, the Chinese government does not want to admit that the Uighur people had ancestors that were not Chinese. They even took the heads off of some of the mummified remains and put the heads of dead Chinese people who were buried nearby to "prove" their point of view. It is all political. They even destroyed some of the beautiful textiles. One man had been buried with stacks of beautiful felt hats. The graves that were not in boats were further out, near Loulan. Those graves looked like the ones in Kazakstan; made of wood, with the person buried underneath and a layer of wood above them with another burial or grave goods. The Chinese government did nuclear testing in that area for a while, so I'm sure those are gone now.
@goldcountryruss7035
8 ай бұрын
Nothing is solved here.
@jintonic07
7 ай бұрын
finally solved?? oook
@donwright3427
8 ай бұрын
Crewmember
@YasrabAli-v7h
4 ай бұрын
I think there was no desert there was a ocean or river if they are Egyptian .. Egyptian buried some people in river and ocean
@joewhite4080
7 ай бұрын
Uyghur is pronounced -- "Wee-Gerr" The narrator keeps mispronouncing it.
@systeminoperative8790
8 ай бұрын
they just cannot be trusted , ever!
@stephanieyee9784
8 ай бұрын
Of whom do you speak?
@llxxll
7 ай бұрын
has anyone done DNA testing on them yet?
@2HighNoon
8 ай бұрын
What if they were descendants of Noah? 🤷♂️
@TheJaniceJoy
7 ай бұрын
The lady with the long eyelashes…isn’t her face covered by a mask?
@nievaconsing3344
7 ай бұрын
✝️RIP🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🕊️💐🕯️🇵🇭
@jamescoleridge7368
7 ай бұрын
Jackanory
@janeb1484
8 ай бұрын
i was interested until you started the chinese propaganda
@BlackyBrownDestruction9337
8 ай бұрын
Needs facial reconstruction
@simonevans343
8 ай бұрын
VIKINGS ????? 2000 BC TO 1500 BC . I DONT THINK SO
@NotYoung3592
8 ай бұрын
Nothing is solved at all, just theories, as usual....
@capitalistdingo
8 ай бұрын
7:38 “Do you find them fascinating or frightening?” Spoiler alert: if you find them frightening you are a pathetic wretch and should be institutionalized. I realize this was a desperate solicitation for comments as is common to game the algorithm gods these days - so I played along - but really? “Do you find the spooky mummies frightening?” 😂
@ALehrer-s8f
7 ай бұрын
they look uyghur
@robertwaguespack9414
8 ай бұрын
It is said that the Goths and the Ostro-Goths came from the east.
@markgarin6355
7 ай бұрын
Ok no where near Mongolia
@Ellie-o1i
18 күн бұрын
xinjiang literally borders mongolia
@User-kjxklyntrw
8 ай бұрын
Just found out that mummies shockingly actually ancient chinese native that means Altay was Chinese descendants, they were born from intermarry between ancient Sinotibetan and East European Caucassian Nomad arround 8000 years ago. So if u are White Caucassian that means u can say u re Chinese descendants.
@judewarner1536
8 ай бұрын
Non-factual, unfortunately. The DNA of western European caucasians is very distinct from the various Eastern people's referred to. Apart from anything else, the DNA of eastern Asian people contains relict Denisovan genes, up to 6%, while Denisovan genes are not found in western Europe.
@User-kjxklyntrw
8 ай бұрын
@@judewarner1536 what the different between Western and Eastern European Caucassian and Altay Caucassian dna and what are the similarities. In my observation the similarities are they all descent from Ancient Sino tibetan, the difference are they have intermarry with ancient other human sub species like if u re western European u will have dominance neanderthal intermarry genes than others. But the eastern European and Altay is closer to Sinotibetan genetically, because Sino tibetan firstly become eastern European before become western European that intermarry with Neanderthal, and Altay came from Sino tibetan that intermarry with eastern European. I know it is not popular in old day science journals, but after observe I found the sequence is reversed in old view and incomplete, yes it is relatively new point of view of our evolution sequence by nowadays scientists and arkheologs. If we want to say from African directly evolve into Western European, I don't find clue about it, because one think if we observe Asian Albino actually has closer appearance with eastern European Caucassian and Altay Caucassian, than we compare an African albino to Caucassian. And eastern European appearance closer to Western European. Neanderthal can not be evolved directly from Africa Homosapiens, because the hair shape model difference is to far , so that straight and a little bit wavy long hair of western European should came from 'Ancient Sino tibetan -> Homosapiens in China that intermarry with Tibetan Denisovans'. If western European evolved directly from Africa the hair should be so Curly like snails when it cut short.
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