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The man had a protruding nasal bone and a sunken nasion, which are typical features of Europeans."

Zhang Quanchao, a professor at Jilin University's Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, said that a skull, found in a 1,400-year-old tomb in Guyuan, the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, probably was that of a man of European origin. The tomb was built in the early Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), and the finding is the latest evidence of ancient exchanges along the ancient Silk Road that connected China with Europe through trade and culture.