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There are various discussions about the origins and influences of different cultures and civilizations, including the Indus Valley Civilization, Theravadins, and the spread of Dravidian languages. A recent archaeological discovery in Kyrgyzstan uncovered a rare 1.5m tall Buddha statue from the 8th-10th century AD, and there are also shares of historical artifacts and symbols, such as a bodhisattva-pitaka-stra fragment and a ruyi symbol. Additionally, users are sharing information about genetic ancestry and cultural exchange between ancient civilizations.
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Social topic influence india 2.11%, china 0.84%, all the 0.84%, the only 0.84%, mazda #438, sweden 0.42%, finland 0.42%, norway 0.42%, create a 0.42%, kazakhstan XXXX%
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"1% of Indias population XXXX million people (1.45 crore). Almost equal to Sweden + Finland + Norway combined(half of Northern Europe)"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-18T09:02Z 11.3K followers, 1508 engagements
"This XX CE Gandhari Prakrit inscription from Takht-i-Bahi Buddhist monastery says something else. We can clearly see the use of "z" in the Saka superstrate word for prince as "erzua()". So the conclusion is that z already predates Islam in India"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-12T11:35Z 11.3K followers, 7419 engagements
"Zarathustra Spitama"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-11T20:13Z 11.3K followers, 8665 engagements
"Thats how Dravidians and the Early Harappans were created"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-09T07:11Z 11.3K followers, 23.6K engagements
"The stereotypical Indian look seems to mainly come from these Iranian-related Neolithic folks who made up 6570% of the Indus Valley Civilization gene pool & rest of the remainder being from native Andamanese related South Asian Hunter-gatherers"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-07-07T18:36Z 11.3K followers, 44.8K engagements
"I won't tolerate any hate against AASIZagrosSteppeZongri/YangshaoLAO_LN_BAANFAmur etc"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-13T18:16Z 11.3K followers, 6739 engagements
"@nrken19 Greece_Logkas_MBA"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2024-09-27T04:19Z 11.2K followers, 1286 engagements
"@blackhawk_273 Wakhi Pamiri grps show closest affinity"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-12T15:15Z 11.2K followers, XX engagements
"grps(including isolated Burusho) tend to cluster/prefer closer to Iranian farmer ancestry in comparison to Dravidian grps(who tend to cluster closer to Iranian Herder ancestry) & there's this one sample i.e. IranShahrISokhta_BA2:I11456"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-15T16:15Z 11.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Narasimhan et al. 2019 states that later groups from the 1st millennium BCE-1st millennium CE like Huns KushansSakas can't be important source for the Steppe ancestry widespread in South Asia today bcoz these later Iron age groups had significant East Asian-related"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-14T13:57Z 11.3K followers, 13.6K engagements
"An Obaku Zen abbot prostration(gotai-tochi). Gotai-tochi represents selflessness & offering one's body to Buddha.It's a prostration with X points of contact i.e. knees elbows & forehead touching the ground which embodies the idea of "casting away one's physical & mental"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-15T07:13Z 11.3K followers, 2985 engagements
"@Nimish_2703 They do carry Iron age Gandhara ancestry apart from carrying Bactrian like Iranic ancestry. No one is saying that they are primarily descendant of Gandharans. DardicPotohari grps have more affinity with Gandharans"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-15T18:00Z 11.2K followers, XX engagements
"Ya compare with this Gonur Depe priest(mainly Zagros). For the heights I will create a separate thread someday"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-14T09:16Z 11.2K followers, 3048 engagements
"It's crazy to think that the Kushans once had it's influence from Kazakhstan to Western China and all the way to Bengal blending Indic+Iranic+Greco-Roman vibes into one powerful civilization"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-14T20:06Z 11.3K followers, 5525 engagements
"Likely this Gracile Indid(which would have been common during Mahajanapada era Gangetic plain) or Sinhalesid type"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-18T05:17Z 11.3K followers, 2133 engagements
"The 1st2nd one looks high Zongri(Proto-Tibeto-Burman like) almost like a NagaNyishi(usually scoring like 90-95%) Very rare to see among Khasis who usually look different. Most likely assimilated"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-14T17:15Z 11.2K followers, 1844 engagements
"Indo-European language family map. The only Bronze Age ancestry that connects a DanishItalianRussian with a TajikHaryanviBihari is the Bronze Age Steppe ancestry(Yamnaya like ancestry). Not IVC nor BMAC nor Dinka Tepe nor Lasithi"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-16T15:08Z 11.3K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Now it make sense why plains of Ganges have highest concentration of R1a-Z93. Those ancients would have stumbled on god-tier fertility and geography as if it reminded them of their homeland but better"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-08T16:03Z 11.3K followers, 16.7K engagements
"IVC cline can be modelled as Iranian Herder(related to Neolithic period of Mehrgarh)+ East Iranian farmer during Chalcolithic period(Sarazm culture fits best according to Moorjani et al. 2024)+ AASI(South Asian Hunter-gatherer). On PCA usually North-Western Indo-aryan"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-15T16:15Z 11.3K followers, 3734 engagements
"Buddha's phenotype would have been something close to this Nepali girl(except that he had curly hair) if we see texts(LakkhanasuttaNarasiha gathaMadhyamgama 6). Jaw like a lion(long) Blue eyes prominent nose skin tone being golden hue(olive/Mediterranean like)"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-18T06:22Z 11.3K followers, 28.2K engagements
"Reconstruction of "Buddha-Mazda"(a syncretism/fusion of Buddha & Ahura Mazda worshipped by East Iranic people of Central Asia) fresco from Kara-TepeOld Termez(Uzbekistan)"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-11T19:24Z 11.3K followers, 12.7K engagements
"Priest King from Indus valley civilization"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-04T12:21Z 11.2K followers, 13.3K engagements
"Doesn't even make any sense. Pork is not a holy animal for them like the Bos Indicus(Zebu Cattle) is for Hindus. Theyd just gun down the 🐖 pigs and march straight through"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-07T04:33Z 11.3K followers, 7949 engagements
"@blackhawk_273 It's shaped by popular Indo-aryan phonology. So these Persian words got substituted with the closest native sound which was usually /j/ or /d/. Since the claim was regarding the antiquity of that sound it was therefore necessary to bring in that inscription"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-12T12:08Z 11.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Another misinformation. Mahamaya is depicted differently(Buddhacaritam XXXX has beautifully narrated that event of conception & birth of kyamuni in poetic form)like this. It shows a white elephant entering Queen My's womb heralding that something positiveauspicious is"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-04T04:07Z 11.2K followers, 2695 engagements
"There are a lot of interesting Old Persian words that's similar to some of the common Buddhist lexicon. For eg.terms like dnadarmakmavdyadarmakabumiAsanga nd so on. These are straight-up cognates to some of the core Buddhist terminologies"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-13T07:30Z 11.3K followers, 3072 engagements
"Ancestral North Eurasian from Hyperborea"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-09T08:48Z 11.3K followers, 11.6K engagements
"Not to forget the Kokcha sample of 2000 BC in Uzbekistan which was literally Andronovo"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-17T19:07Z 11.3K followers, XXX engagements
"2100-1700 B.C. There were outliers with steppe ancestry at BMAC sites as well"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-17T19:06Z 11.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Lack of true civilizational pride & vision drowned instead in hollow chauvinism & ego. India had neither done the groundwork in it's native cultural aesthetics(including showcasing) like Thailand Japan Bhutan nor shown the discipline for real development like China Japan"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-10T19:55Z 11.3K followers, 2128 engagements
"Thats like saying Celts arrived in England after the Germanics(Anglo-Saxons) which is why Northerners still use Brythonic(Cumbric) Celtic sheep counting words which absolutely make no sense bcoz usually such elements are remnants of an older linguistic substratum & are not"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-15T18:56Z 11.2K followers, 1697 engagements
"He was the founder of Zorastrianism/Mazdayasna actually(modern day Parsis of India follow the same religion). Buddha-Mazda was syncretism b/w Buddha & the Iranian supreme god Ahura Mazda a localized belief/artistic interpretation that emerged in regions where Iranic & Indic"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-13T14:37Z 11.2K followers, 2352 engagements
"@Nimish_2703"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-15T15:54Z 11.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Strong/thickstraight(orthic) & prominent nasal bridge Nasal tip is projecting forwardnot/less acuminatus(drooping which was kinda more among ZagrosANF pop.) Nasal angle is 60-65 Narrow & vertically oriented Nasal aperture. Not too long"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-14T12:58Z 11.3K followers, 12.7K engagements
"Offerings being made to the 13th-century rock-cut images of the Buddha known as Burgan-Daa (Buddha Mountain) Sme-Beli mountain Chaa-Khl kojuun Republic of Tyva Russian Federation. They were likely originally made during the Yuan dynasty by newly converted Mongol"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-15T06:14Z 11.3K followers, 4666 engagements
"@blackhawk_273 That is a woman(1st and 2nd are both Jats) Steppe has to do with more than just eye colourhair colour"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-14T11:03Z 11.2K followers, XXX engagements
"East Iranic(they had different dialects) Modern day Wakhi language is the only descendant"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-12T15:00Z 11.2K followers, 2152 engagements
"Balochis & Brahuis are genetically identical. Before Parthians there's hardly any significant existence of Iranic influence in Balochistan area. Balochi is also quite close to Parthian(both being North-western Iranic languages). Usually the affinity of Middle Iranic loan"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-16T09:16Z 11.3K followers, 5434 engagements
"An East Iranian farmer from Anau culture(Chalcolithic era Turkmenistan) amidst a barley field. The Iranian farmer ancestry in Indus valley genepool was similar to the genome of these East Iranian farmers from Eneolithic Turkmenistan"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-05T19:02Z 11.2K followers, 5788 engagements
"show very close affinity with Dravidian grps but also tend to have lowest farmer ancestry among all IVC periphery samples. Soon there will be a paper coming on Proto-Dravidians anyways"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-15T16:15Z 11.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Some common Prakrit based Indian names "SurajSonaSonuLakhan/LakhmanKanhaDiyaNehaChandu/ChandaBholuMunnaNainaSonali""
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-04T12:42Z 11.2K followers, 2401 engagements
"The dumbness is comparing a pic from colonial era(with no industrial adulterated dietrefined carb slop sedentary lifestyle) to a a pic from post-Industrial era India. The main reason for ugliness is more to do with lifestylediet than the blame being passed on a particular"
X Link @Rtam86418021 2025-10-13T06:26Z 11.3K followers, 20.2K engagements