Tests found that the DNA of some villagers in Liqian, on the fringes of the Gobi Desert in north-western China, was 56 per cent Caucasian in origin.
Many of the villagers have blue or green eyes, long noses and even fair hair, prompting speculation that they have European blood.
A local man, Cai Junnian, is nicknamed by his friends and relatives Cai Luoma, or Cai the Roman, and is one of many villagers convinced that he is descended from the lost legion.
qxoz wrote: "The genetic tests have leant weight to the theory that Roman legionaries settled in the area in the first century BC after fleeing a disastrous battle." So this is why the Chinese promote their own bishops!!! What about the theory that a bunch of italian tourists got lost a few centuries ago and integrated with the locals.
It's apparent that the writers of this piece never opened a National Geographic magzine. Caucasians came to at least the Western part of China long before the Roaans, as this Youtube video will point out, part 1 National Geographic Ancient Caucasian Mummies Found In China.
What I remember of my history there was only one possible contact between Roman and Chinese military forces, and the Romans scurried back to the Roman Empire.
"The genetic tests have leant weight to the theory that Roman legionaries settled in the area in the first century BC after fleeing a disastrous battle."
So this is why the Chinese promote their own bishops!!!
What about the theory that a bunch of italian tourists got lost a few centuries ago and integrated with the locals.
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Caucasians came to at least the Western part of China long before the Roaans, as this Youtube video will point out, 
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