{"id":2545,"date":"2011-02-23T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/bletherskite\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2011-02-23T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T20:08:08","slug":"mcmummy-chinese-unearth-4000-year-old-mummy-in-a-kilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"McMummy &#8211; Chinese unearth 4000 year old mummy in a kilt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2546\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2546\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2546\" title=\"4000-year-old mummy with ginger hair and a kilt \" alt=\"4000-year-old mummy with ginger hair and a kilt \" src=\"http:\/\/www.letsbuyscottish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mummy-image.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"248\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">4000-year-old mummy with ginger hair and a kilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 4000 year old female mummy found in China has been identified as a Scot &#8211; due to\u00a0 its red hair and the fact it was wearing a\u00a0 kilt-like dress.<\/p>\n<p>There has been much debate about the origins of the mummy, known as the Beauty of Xiaohe,\u00a0 since she was found in Xinjiang region in western China.<\/p>\n<p>Other mummified remains found in the region have been linked to warriors of the Caledonii tribe.<\/p>\n<p>The Beauty is on show in Philadelphia in the US as part of the Chinese Secrets Of The Silk Road exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>One source who viewed the mummy, believed to be among the earliest inhabitants of the Xinjiang region, said: &#8220;The hair has an orange tint and she looks Celtic or Scottish. The clothes had plaid patterns, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-shop\/kilts\/gents-tartan-kilts\/\">Scottish kilts<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mummies linked to the Caledonii have red-brown hair and a ginger beard and wore tartan leggings.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly the\u00a0 bodies are better preserved than Egyptian mummies and similarities to traditional Bronze Age Celts are said to be astonding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 4000 year old female mummy found in China has been identified as a Scot &#8211; due to\u00a0 its red hair and the fact it was wearing a\u00a0 kilt-like dress. There has been much debate about the origins of the mummy, known as the Beauty of Xiaohe,\u00a0 since she was found in Xinjiang region in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scottish_news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mummy-image.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}