Behind Rothschild's sealed vault: Tartaria

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The BLACK Kings Russia Forgot

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Origins of domesticated Cannabis 🥦

DNA: Who are Jews? Iranians? Khazars?

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Well, I didn't know. Jews didn't tell me that.

Who are the Iranian peoples and where did they come from? The true "Aryans"? What is the Elamite language? Dr. Ranajit Pal (Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander) asserts that the Buddha's mother was from a part of Iran (Sistan Baluchistan) and his father Gandharan (Central Asian, Afghan), the extended family being Indo-Scythians/Sakas.

Indo-European migrations - Iranian peoples - Wikipedia

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DNA: origin of Indo-Euro languages

Tumulus (barrow, kurgan, stupa, burial mound) Indo-European culture (pinterest.jp)

6,500-year-old DNA reveals origin of Indo-European languages spoken by half the world

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, hunting in its rivers and across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, without writing, and without essential technology like the wheel. Yet, their language would one day become the foundation for nearly half the world’s spoken tongues, from English (British) and Spanish (Latin) to Hindi (Sanskrit) and Persian (Aryan and Indo-Iranian languages).

• Indo-Iranians

Who were these people? And how did their language spread so far and wide? A landmark pair of studies may finally have uncovered answers hidden in ancient DNA. By analyzing genetic material from over 400 individuals across Eurasia, researchers have traced the origins of Indo-European languages to a group known as the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) people, who lived around 6,500 years ago.

This discovery not only solves a centuries-old linguistic puzzle but also reveals how the CLV people’s descendants — the nomadic Yamnaya culture — carried their language across continents, shaping the course of human history.

The hunt for the first Indo-European speakers

For decades, linguists and archeologists have debated the origins of Indo-European languages. Some argued that early farmers in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) spread the language as they expanded their agricultural practices.

Others pointed to the Yamnaya, a nomadic herding culture that roamed the steppes of Russia and Ukraine around 5,000 years ago, as the likely pioneers of the root language.

Research led by geneticist David Reich of Harvard University bridges these theories. By analyzing DNA from ancient skeletons, the researchers found that the CLV people, who lived between the Caucasus Mountains and the lower Volga River, were the ancestors of both the Yamnaya and the early Anatolian farmers. Around 6,000 years ago, some CLV groups migrated west, mixing with local hunter-gatherers to form the Yamnaya culture.

Others moved south into Anatolia, where they interbred with early farmers and gave rise to languages like Hittite, the oldest known Indo-European language that we have written records of.

“We’ve been on the hunt for this for many years,” Reich told the New York Times. “This is the first time we have a genetic picture unifying all Indo-European languages.”

Genetic reconstruction of the ancestry of Pontic-Caspian steppe and West Asian populations points to four key locations. Credit: Nature. (© ZME Science).

The Yamnaya, researchers believe, thanks to their high mobility and herding practices, became the primary vector for spreading Indo-European languages across Europe and Asia.

“They spread from the steppes north of the Black and Caspian seas all the way to Mongolia on one side and as far as Ireland on the other — 6,000 kilometers!” David Anthony, an anthropologist and co-author of the study, told Harvard Gazette.

The discovery of the CLV people as the missing link in the Indo-European story marks a turning point in a 200-year-old quest. Earlier genetic studies had shown that the Yamnaya carried steppe ancestry into Europe and Asia, but the origins of their language remained unclear.

The new research reveals that the CLV people not only contributed to the Yamnaya genome but also to the ancestry of Bronze Age Anatolians. Previously, the absence of steppe ancestry among the Hittites had puzzled researchers. The new study shows that the Hittites likely inherited their language from the CLV people who migrated to Anatolia, rather than from the Yamnaya.

“The Caucasus-Lower Volga group therefore can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations,” said Dr. Ron Pinhasi, a researcher at the University of Vienna and co-author of the study. “They are the best candidate for the population that spoke Proto-Indo-European.”

 

Yamnaya culture at its largest expansion (© ZME Science)

Not everyone is convinced though. Some linguists, like Paul Heggarty of Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, argue that the first Indo-European speakers were early farmers in the Fertile Crescent, not hunter-gatherers in southern Russia.

“Genes don’t tell us anything about language, period,” said Mait Metspalu, a population geneticist at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Still, origin or not, the significance of the Yamnaya culture cannot be denied.

A remarkable people

Yamnaya People: Characteristics, Culture, Migrations | Early European history and religion

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The Yamnaya, descendants of the CLV people, revolutionized life on the steppes with their herding practices and use of wheeled wagons. Their superior technology most likely supercharged the spread of their language across vast regions through trade and conquest.

“I don’t think we can even imagine what it was like for other people to see a wagon coming,” said Anthony. “It was moving across the landscape, creaking and groaning, pulling a ton of equipment. People had never seen anything like it before.”

The Yamnaya also left behind a lasting legacy in their burial practices. Both the CLV and Yamnaya cultures buried their dead in large earthen mounds called kurgans, which have provided a wealth of archaeological and genetic data. “Suppose the Yamnaya had cremated their dead,” said Nick Patterson, a co-author of the study. “Chances are, we wouldn’t even know about this crucial culture in human history.”

As the debate over the origins of Indo-European languages continues, one thing is clear: The story is far more complex — and far more fascinating — than anyone imagined.

“There’s all sorts of mixtures and movements from places that these myths never imagined,” said Reich. “And it really teaches us that there’s really no such thing as purity.”

The findings appeared in the journal Nature. This story originally appeared on ZME Science. More

Buddhist pyramid found in Central Asia

Pyramids in Peru: CARAL Supe

Deep in the vast steppes of [formerly Buddhist] Central Asia, archeologists have uncovered a remarkable ancient structure — a (stupa) pyramid over 3,000 years old.

Hidden along the Taldy River in Central Kazakhstan’s Karaganda region, this monument, known as the Pyramid of Karazhartas (Begazy Dandybai Mausolea) sheds light on a civilization that once thrived in the Late Bronze Age.

• Buddhism in Kazakhstan
• Buddhism in Afghanistan
• Buddhas of Bamiyan
• Buddhists don't build pyramids, except this one in Indonesia, the largest excavated Buddhist temple in the world called Borobudur
• It looks more like a Buddhist mandala than a stupa

The Begazy-Dandibay People

The vast Eurasian Steppe separates Asia from Europe in frigid Central Asia (wiki)

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Buddhist stupa, burial mound reliquary = Śarīra

The Begazy-Dandibay culture, which built this structure, flourished in central Kazakhstan during this period.

These semi-sedentary people mastered metallurgy and relied on animal husbandry. Their ability to trade metals across Eurasia fueled economic prosperity and gave rise to a powerful aristocratic class.

Historians and archeologists leading the excavation believe the pyramid was a mausoleum for one of these elite figures.

"This is one of the most remarkable monuments of the Begazy-Dandibay culture," said historian Serhan Cinar, who co-leads the project with archaeologist Aybar Kasenali. Archeologists discover 3,000-year-old pyramid from the Late Bronze Age

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• Joseph Shavit, Brighterside of News via MSN.com, March 5, 2025; Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Human origins in Turkey, Europe?

8.7-million-year-old skull just discovered in Turkey rewrites history!

These are my ancestors, the hominines

(Discovery Future) A groundbreaking discovery in Turkey (Türkiye) is challenging the long-held belief that humans and great apes evolved exclusively in Africa.

Meet Anadoluvius turkae, an 8.7-million-year-old fossil that has sparked a bold hypothesis: The evolutionary lineage leading to humans — known as hominines — may have originated in Europe before migrating to Africa.

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Cuvier at Paleontology Museum

Unearthed from the Çorakyerler fossil site in northern Turkey (central Anatolia), this remarkably well-preserved partial cranium sheds new light on our evolutionary past.

Scientists believe that Anadoluvius turkae lived in dry forest environments alongside animals like giraffes, zebras, and lion-like predators, many of which later migrated to Africa.

The implications are profound. If true, this discovery suggests that hominines evolved and diversified in Europe for over 5,000,000 (five million) years before spreading to the eastern Mediterranean and eventually moving into Africa.

This challenges the traditional "Out of Africa" narrative and rekindles debates about where our earliest ancestors first emerged.

Join us as we explore the fascinating story of Anadoluvius turkae, delve into the broader context of primate evolution, and examine the shifting environments that may have driven these migrations.

What does this mean for our understanding of human origins? And what mysteries still await beneath the earth?

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• Discovery Future, Jan. 12, 2025; Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Buddha was Central Asian, not Indian

The largest ethnic groups in Central Asia

The Buddha-to-be Prince Siddhartha Gautama lived in seasonal capital palaces like Mes Aynak.

Central Asia/Gandhara is NW of pre-1948 India

(Eurasia) Despite having the same size as Mexico, Central Asia is one of the most diverse and unique areas on Earth. Yet, most people know nothing about it or its peoples. This video shows the amazing diversity of the region, a blend of East and West, possibly the "Middle Country" (Majjhimadesa) of Buddhist lore where buddhas originate, and the interesting cultures, music, food, and customs that come with them.

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• Buddhism in Central Asia
• The Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan
• The Indo-Scythians (Sakastan)
• Buddhist Wonders of Mes Aynak
• Stan simply means "land," so we call this territory Shakya Land (Sakastan), where the Buddha's family, the Scythians, ruled along the Silk Route.
• Indian historian Dr. Ranajit Pal, Ph.D. explains in Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander
• Eurasia, Oct. 12, 2019; Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Blue eyes are not blue: illusory gene

Asian born with blue eyes? Yes. "I'm not a fan of reality" (pinterest.co.uk)

Blue eyes go way back on Earth.

We all probably know a number of people who have blue eyes (and may even possess a pair ourselves), but just about 10,000 years ago, blue-eyed humans were unheard of. [What about snow dogs like malamutes and Egyptian cats?]

The Buddha's blue eyes from Central Asia

For a long time, all humans had brown eyes, until one northern European with a genetic mutation [brought on by alien hybrid breeding, mating, abduction, and genetic manipulation] brought a whole new look to the human eyeball [on this planet].

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We come in peace and mean humans no harm.

To this day, every blue-eyed person is a descendant of that first azure-eyed [being]. [We're these the ETs who saw a human and said, "Come, let us make Man in our image, after Our likeness? Probably.]

In the Americas, anything is possible (Brazil)

Similar to skin color, eye color comes down to the amount of melanin, or pigment, that can be found in the iris. More melanin means darker eyes. And eyes that lack melanin in the first layer of the iris appear to be blue instead of brown.

In other words, blue eyes are not eyes that have blue pigment, they are eyes that lack brown pigment.

How does this happen? In 2008, researchers at the University of Copenhagen determined that people with blue eyes possess a genetic mutation that basically "turns off" the eyes' ability to create melanin. More

Blue eyed Ginger criminal from outer space?

• Simplemost (Mediafeed) via MSN.com, Feb. 2024; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Treasure: Silk Road Buddhist burial mound

Buddhist monks sit, admiring a great Buddhist stupa in Sanchi, India (robertharding.com)

A discovery of artifacts, recovered from a 2,000-year-old burial mound, shows off a little-known society’s sophistication and deep connections to the Silk Road (Jordi Salas/Getty Images)

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Afghan burial mound carved from solid rock

A discovery of artifacts [reported today, June 6, 2024, on MSN from Popular Mechanics based on Live Science, May 30, 2024], recovered from a 2,000-year-old burial mound (Buddhist stupa), shows off a little-known society’s sophistication and deep connections to the Silk Road (extending into Kucha and onward to China).

The Kangju people lived in Central Asia (southern Kazakhstan) for nearly a millennium, but experts know very little about them.

World famous Buddhist stupa, Sanchi, India

A new discovery of artifacts, recovered from a 2,000-year-old [Buddhist] burial mound (stupa), shows off this little-known society’s sophistication and its deep connections to the ancient Silk Road (not "road" but trade route between East and West).

Featuring a brass mirror from China and a Roman-style brooch, this treasure trove reveals the intimate evidence of the world’s first major attempt at globalization.

• [This was by no means the first attempt at globalization because many times in the past, the world was united, connected, and following a global culture, religion, leader known as a world monarch or chakravartin, according to the ancient Vedas and other sources].

Buddhist stupas (burial mounds) are based on ancient North and Central Asian custom.

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Tummulus of Bougon, neolithic kurgan, barrow

For around 800 years (from the 4th century BCE to the 4th century CE), a people group known as the Kangju flourished in what is now southern Kazakhstan.

Despite this relatively long reign in Central Asia, the unknowns of this ancient society far outweigh the knowns.

• The Buddha was from this general area, ancient Indo-Scythia, Gandhara, Central Asia, now the Stans (Sakastan), which includes the massive area known as Kazakhstan, made infamous by Borat (Sascha Cohen).

Buddhist stupa, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia

Experts know, for example, that the people had Indo-European origins, spoke an Eastern Iranian [Aryan] language, and likely practiced a semi-nomadic [Scythian] way of life — a common choice among people groups in Central Asian and the Eurasian steppe.

Everything else has been slowly pieced together from pottery and other artifacts left behind for someone to eventually find.

Now, a new treasure trove of artifacts (livescience.com) has been discovered in 2,000-year-old burial mounds in the ancient Kangju region.

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Kyrgyzstan (The Great Patron of Buddhism)

These items include jewelry, arrowheads, and a large bronze mirror — all of which speak to the Kangju’s sophistication.

Kazakhstan lies at the heart of what would’ve been the ancient Silk Road, and the items reflect the impact of this ancient-world globalization. The mirror, for example, has been traced to the craftsmen of China’s Han Dynasty, which reigned from 206 BCE to 220 CE. Similar mirrors have been found among the discarded detritus of other civilizations along the ancient Silk Road, likely meaning that the woman buried with the mirror was someone of considerable wealth or importance.

Afghan Takht-e Rostam (Gandhara)

However, China wasn’t the Kangju’s only trading partner. The ancient people likely also traded with the Roman Empire and the Kushan Empire, another Central Asian power to the south.

To uncover these items, a team of experts from Ozbekali Zhanibekov University — located in the city of Shymkent along the border with [formerly Buddhist] Uzbekistan — and local government archaeologists traveled to three burial mounds in the oblast (administrative region) of Turkistan.

As is often the case when exploring ancient [Buddhist] ruins, two of the mounds had already been plundered, likely during medieval times. But the third mound still had ancient wonders lying in wait.

An ancient stupa in formerly Buddhist now Islamic Swat Valley of Pakistan (NW India)

Central Asian Buddhist pyramid (yantra, mandala, square stupa, Gandhara (Newsweek, AA1jFN5l)

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• [See Bones of the Buddha, a documentary that shows the many Buddhist treasures discovered under a burial mound and removed to England, where they sit under a bed of a young man who inherited them from his relative, who discovered them. They were not placed in a museum as priceless treasures because the site they were found did not agree with the popular conception of which current country the Buddha's relics were buried. In fact, according to the ancient texts, the relics were partitioned and buried in eight places, one of them off-planet in a world of devas (ETs). The Buddha was not from Nepal, but that is what we are taught, so sometimes India and Nepal debate where he was raised and where his remains must have been placed. He was raised in ancient Gandhara (modern Bamiyan, Afghanistan, according to Indian historian Dr. Ranajit Pal, but it is known that he was raised in three seasonal capitals, all simply called "Kapilavastu," which Wisdom Quarterly proposes included modern Kabul (the strategic modern capital of Afghanistan) and Mes Aynak (the world's largest unexcavated Buddhist monastic complex and rare earth goldmine).]

Stupas may be ancient features in the Southwest

According to a press release translated from the Kazakh language, experts also found other items — including ornate earrings, a belt buckle, and a Roman brooch — that once again emphasized the mound’s advantageous position along the Silk Road.

The leader of this archeological expedition, Ozbekali Zhanibekov University’s Prof. Aleksandr Podushkin, said that the Yangju were actually comprised of many different people, including the Asian Sarmatians, the Xiongnu, the Kangyu, and the subsequent Saki [Sakai, Saka, Shakya, Shakyian, the Buddha's group] (who were, possibly, the famous Scythians).

Prof. Podushkin has published some 90 articles related the peoples of southern Kazakhstan, and some of his previous work (silkroadfoundation.org) involved analyzing the religious beliefs of the Kangju from artifacts gathered from Ugam Valley, which is also located in the Turkistan region.

Now, these relics will travel to the capital city of Astana and be housed in the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan. As experts like Prof. Podushkin continue to find these hidden treasures, over time, the largely blurry image of this people group of Central Asia should slowly begin to come into focus. More: Archaeologists found stunning treasure buried by a mysterious forgotten tribe

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• Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics (via msn.com, June 6, 2024) [Archaeology]; edited and expanded by Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly, June 6, 2024