@atlasoffaces: Studies put Uyghur ancestry at somewhere near half western Eurasian and half East Asian, mixed for at least two thousand years. The earliest Tarim Basin mummies, once called European, were a local people who grew wheat and were buried with lumps of cheese. And Khotan probably still spoke an Iranian language in the eighth century. The portraits are AI illustrations. Sources: Xu et al. (2008), Xu & Jin (2008), Feng et al. (2017), Zhang et al. (2021), Joyce (1903), Stein (1903, 1907). Photos via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and animated: Pravit (CC BY-SA 4.0); Fan Zhang et al (CC BY-SA 4.0); Scott Newman (CC BY-SA 2.0). #uyghur #xinjiang #silkroad #ancestry

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