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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21How about a link to an image that isn't tiny as hell?
- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18This kind of stuff facinates me because it reveals more about human migration and changes our perspectives on what it means to be a certain race.
Obviously if you go far enough back we will all have a common ancestor. Science and religion agree on this, if nothing else. But the common ancestors between two seemingly completely different races can be a lot more recent than we like to think.
Ideas like other races evolving from black people have been broken using other migration and genetic sciences, proving facts like darker skin is actually an evolutionary response to prolonged and direct sun exposure. People who migrated from Africa earlier didn't develop the protection, they kept a skin color closer to our closest relative, the chimp.
Sickle cell anemia also affects black people disproportionately because of an evolutionary response that protects them from malaria.
I'm a little bit off topic, and I am not trying to encourage "reverse racisim". I just think it is funny when ignorant people down another race before considering actual scientific facts. But these are the same types of people who willfully ignore other scientific facts to support their beliefs for an array of other issues, so I am not surprised. - q3ctf4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Link to better pictures:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTU4MjQmbnI9MQ_3_3,00.html - VorpalK, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Keith Richards? Is that you?
Golly I hope there aren't any palm trees in Mongolia... - n3tfury, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10could there BE a smaller picture?
- 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The tats read "Scythians Rule!"
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9People that say tattoos look crummy as you get older are right. Look at the state of it!
- pyrator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Lol
"Parzinger said even the contents of the horses' stomachs would be examined to offer insights into the region's vegetation two centuries before Christ. "
Doesn't he mean five centuries - lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11I'm not a christian, so I feel I have a little latitude saying this.
What is the big deal using BCE instead of BC? What exactly happened at that specific moment that changed it to the "common era"?
Our calendar was created by a christian monk who believed jesus was the messiah so why should we pretend it is something that it isn't?
Saying BCE instead of BC is just snobbish and makes you look like an *****.
BTW, this comment is copyrighted by Lane Montgomery in the year 5766. :) - smfreegard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Fry: Hey Professor, great jerky....
Professor: Dear god, this is an outrage... I was going to eat that Mummy. - DopeWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Reposting this up here so it is easier to find.
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[/quote] - hypoxide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Firstly, race is a made-up word that has nothing to do with science.
We are all the human race, our difference in appearances are denoted as phenotypes within our species, much like cats may have tabby fur or solid colored fur.
Second, the species H. sapien evolved from a former Hominid, there is no "common ancestor" between "black people" and everyone else. Our differences in appears are simply evolutionary adaptations, allowing us to better survive in our environment (eg. dark skin for those in areas where sun exposure is severe and prolonged, thicker facial and body hair for those in areas with more cold, etc. This is simply survival of the fittest, and it is how species diverge into other species. If a species changes so much that it is no longer able to reproduce with another of its species, then it has diverged, yet remains in the Family.)
Thirdly, our closest "relative" may be the chimp, but we aren't "keeping" a chimp's skin color. Who is to say a chimp has not undergone the same adaptations with skin color as we have? Regardless, I can't see why skin color makes any difference to begin with. That's really the least fascinating part about humans. Talk about why we have subcutaneous fat layers, or why our hair grows in a curiously aquadymanic fashion as to suggest we may have survived strictly as coast-dwellers and our hair evolved to allow us better swimming capabilities, or why man has the largest phallus proportional to his body size out of every mammal.
Also, if you told a strongly religious person, perhaps a bible literalist, that we have some common ancestor with apes, they'd probably spit on you. (Although if you told them black people have such a common ancestor, they'd probably agree.)
In any case, you're on the right track, but you still seem to assert that there are different "races" of humans. - idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'd say for someone that's more than 2000 years old, he's held up pretty well.
- airship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I wouldn't read too much into the blond hair just yet. From the article:
"Researchers said the most striking feature about the man was his light blond hair, which Parzinger acknowledged may have yellowed after his death."
In fact, this happens quite often with mummies, depending on the conditions they've endured over the centuries. This guy's hair could have originally been black, or red, or just about any color in between. Wait for the analysis to be done. - Strd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was in the archeological expidition in the Russian Altay Mountains in 80-s, there is a lot of burial kurgans where, about two-three kurgan each square kilometer. Most of them robbed in ancient time though, but still have plenty of small objects missed by robbers - gold embrodiery, bronze implementation etc. Some of the nomad mummies found there indeed blond europeoids.
- 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3idk why your getting dugg down, it says 2,500 year old mummy which puts him 5 hundred years (5 centuries) before christ.
- matthewaaron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Well preserved? It looks like something I saw lying on the side of the road this morning...
- RickySan65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Chandler?
- Esstee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Those pictures are awesome! - thanks for sharing
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Is he teriyaki flavor like Zevulon the Great?
- billmania, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The zoom feature in Opera will do the same. Press the + key.
- farrellj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another thing to remember is that we have always been a traveling people. Even in BCE times, there was a huge amount of trade between the eastern and western parts of Eurasia, and that trade included ideas as well as goods.
ttyl
Farrell - calebcharles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1THAT's why I use digg. Thanks for the larger pics. Proof of concept that reading TFA doesn't really matter. Just scroll the comments for the Youtube link or the "better" pictures or the direct link or the.... all for getting dugg up. God bless democracy. Man, am I lazy or what.
- aashishsahrawat, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1This story has guts itself.
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or http://www.atledo.com/tattoo - yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Finally someone with a sensible comment about the article and a wise crack. Smart arse comments are ok, but most of them are stupid.
- Esstee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Amazing find.
- jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -9/+9Can this scientist prove that Christ existed? Scientists should use the more secular, and therefore universal, term B.C.E, Before Common Era.
- chubbymidget, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3So that's where I left that.
Dibs! - mazza558, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2You just made me spit out my coffee :)
- ipodman715, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2An ancient rock star.
- ripcrd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1But did he have any piercings?
I bet the tats say "Maiden Rules" and he had his right hand raised in the air doing the devil horns/rock on sign. - tzon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Agreed, you'd think they'd actually provide a decent size picture. A workaround for tiny pictures, if you're on a Mac, use the system wide zoom feature.
- SteveHiggs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Damn, I registered JUST to mention the 5 centuries thing and pyrator beat me to it! lol.
- BufordT, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Well preserved?
- nodrew, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4I heart mom
- julienbh, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2Hummmmmm...horses' stomachs....
Want some? - crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3they found the first tramp stamp too?
- julienbh, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3Tattoo's are so overrated, except for the animal...
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