From markcharnljoseph@hotmail.com Sun Jul 16 15:57:01 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id PAA42602 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:57:01 -0700 Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f265.hotmail.com [216.32.180.223]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with SMTP id PAA13453 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:57:00 -0700 Received: (qmail 55986 invoked by uid 0); 16 Jul 2000 22:56:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20000716225657.55985.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 24.24.199.159 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:56:57 PDT X-Originating-IP: [24.24.199.159] From: "Mark Joseph" To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Lost Greek "tribe"? Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:56:57 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I trust this will be non-controversial; the classical content is evident. I don't read Reader's Digest, but recently someone without any classical background brought an article from the July issue to me. Entitled "Quest for Alexander's Lost Tribe," it talks about the idea that the Hunza and the Kalash, two tribes in northeastern Pakistan, might be descended from soldiers left behind by Alexander the Great on his trek east. This possibility is based on phenotypic features of the two tribes and some tribal legends. Now, I don't exactly take RD as an authority, and haven't heard about this before, but it doesn't seem to be an a priori impossibility. Can someone fill in some detail on the state of the question, and direct me to some more reputable sources of information? Mark Joseph ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com .