Actually, it's true... well - the fact that there are mummies in China of European descent.
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To quote from the USA Today article:
"Three of these mummies, along with 150 artifacts, ranging from 2,000 to 4,000 years old, will be displayed for the first time in the USA in the Secrets of the Silk Road: Mystery Mummies From China exhibit on March 27 at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif.
The mummies' Caucasian appearance suggests that Bronze Age nomads speaking Indo-European languages from perhaps Russia and Ukraine brought culture, physical features and genes to parts of western China and may have also been the first to domesticate the horse, says Spencer Wells, who has studied the Tarim mummies and is director of the National Geographic Society's The Genographic Project.
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Some artifacts found with the mummies, including bronze and sheep bones, hint that Europeans brought technologies such as metallurgy and some domesticated animals to China, which may explain the European appearance of the mummies and suggest that trade between Europe and Asia existed nearly 4,000 years ago, Mair says.
Mair adds that recent DNA research suggests that men from the West were "linking up with local women, the people in the central part of Asia.""
Now... the youtube video tries to draw some over-the-line conclusions...
The Chinese were perfectly capable of developing their own marvels. It was the exchange of Chinese (and Indian) goods/products that drove the Age of Exploration (which wouldn't come for another few thousand years...).
That said, it is quite interesting how capable our ancestors were. One can't help but wonder if we've lost touch with something that we once had....
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