"The Tarim mummies", discovered by Chinese archaeologists in Northwest China belong to the people of European descent. Presumably, the Sarmatians, the Tocharians and Scythian nomads from the Northern black sea coast. This proves that the Indo-European tribes who lived from two to four thousand years ago, moved East far beyond what used to be considered by historians.

On the mummies equipped spacious dresses made of very thin fabrics, knitted pants and plaid skirt. From under the hoods and caps streaming down his shoulders or reddish blond hair. Well-preserved oblong persons have deep-set eyes, big nose and thin lips typical features of the white race. It is hard to believe that these "European" mummy thousands of years lay in the Sands in the Western Chinese province of Xinjiang!

From steppe, lying North of the Black sea nomads - Scythians, Sarmatians and the Tocharians - paved the way to distant China. The Tocharians, probably brought to China bronze tools and the art of their production. They taught Asian tribes do wheeled vehicles.

Since the 1970s, Chinese archaeologists have discovered for over hundreds of mummies in a shallow sandy graves. The graves are situated between the foothills of Tien Shan in the North and the oases of the Taklamakan desert from the South.

The first foreigner who has received permission to explore and capture the mummies in the Museum, was the archaeologist from the Centre for the study of Eurasian nomads of the University of Berkeley in California Gianni Davis-Kimball. "The safety of the detail is incredible", - is surprised Davis-Kimball. At high temperatures and extremely low humidity on the skin of corpses remained even applied ocher ornament. Mummy has not lost his human characteristics, and, according to the archaeologist, you can guess their social affiliation: they look not just as dry corpses, but as wealthy warriors, merchants, artisans, peasants... they're wearing clothes from fabrics, woven dyed wool blue, brown and green.

"Cellular and diagonal patterns on fabrics - Nordic type, explains archaeologist. - Together with the deceased into the grave was putting all that was required for a person in everyday life: pots, crests, needle, clasps and clips from wood and bone, as well as whole loaves of bread and sheaves. Very rarely in the graves is a weapon".

How blonde strangers trapped in remote areas of Asia? Where did they ever go? Ancient Chinese manuscripts II century BC report "tall aliens with deep-set blue or green eyes, long noses, with bushy beards and red or blond hair". Mummy prove that these descriptions nothing fantastic. And the growth of mummies also correspond to the descriptions: among them was a tall man. Rock paintings in the caves in the North-Western China, belonging to the first century ad, represent the red-haired horsemen. Judging by their appearance, they could be neighbors or relatives mummified corpses from the Tarim valley.

One of the Tarim mummies

Specialist mummies Victor Mair from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia convinced that the promotion of Indo-European nomads East began from the steppes of Northern black sea coast. In southern Ukraine, around 4000 years BC people have learned to vanosdall horses. The oldest remains of horse-drawn carriages are the age of about 3000 years. In the graves, where lay the mummy of Tocharians, also found a wooden disk wheels.

Judging by the finds in burial mounds, these people really do not lead a settled life. Nomads did not leave anything unless burials. However, they used mounds in the course of several centuries, and therefore the contents of the mound lot can be said about the tribe, which were buried in it their senior dead. A few burial mounds on the territory of Kazakhstan were buried women is clearly a very high social status. In their graves scientists have found a large amount of jewelry, which is typical for women's graves and, oddly enough, swords!

"These nomadic women probably belonged power and property, they played a major role in the rituals, hunting and fighting", - this was the conclusion of American Devisible, who led four archaeological expeditions in Pokrovka area, on the Russian-Kazakhstan border. Together with Russian colleagues she examined 50 burials of nomads-Sarmatians, who in VII-III centuries BC, lived in the steppes between the Don and the Southern Urals. Maybe that's courageous Sarmatian women and were legendary Amazons?

About 450 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus traveled far to the North from the Black sea and later handed heard there is a story of violent rider, which he called Amazons. Fellow Greeks, added to his story many fictional details and gladly depicted Amazons in literary works, reliefs and mosaics. Female warriors, discovered by archeologists in the mound under the Pokrovka, lived or, at least, was dead and buried for about 1500 km to the East, as pointed out by Herodotus. "But they could be a contemporary of Herodotus," believes the leader of the expedition. She believes that some tribes were displaced from other European steppes, and they were forced to migrate further to the East, deep into the continent.