A genetic analysis has demonstrated that nearly twothirds of the inhabitants in Ligian, a village in Western China, have a remote Caucasian origin. Are they the descendants of Roman legionaries who got lost in Iran in 53 BC and were then taken prisoners by the Huns, as an Oxford professor asserted in the fifties? But according to another scholar, the village would have been founded in 104 BC, much earlier than the supposed arrival of the Romans. And so, this remains a complete enigma.
From IGNA – Newletter February 2011