奇幻、智慧、古老：世界最神祕的八大民族
1. Russians
1、俄羅斯人
Scientists still cannot agree on their origins and answer the question when Russians became Russian. The ancestry of Russians were sought among Normans, Scythians, and Sarmatians, and even the South Siberian Usuns.
俄羅斯人從何而來？究竟又是何時成爲如今的俄羅斯人？科學家們意見不一，也無從回答。諾曼人、斯基泰人、薩爾馬特人和南西伯利亞烏孫人裏都有俄羅斯人的祖先。
2. Maya
2、瑪雅人
Some scientists believe that they are connected to legendary atlantes, others suppose their ancestors were Egyptians. The Maya created an efficient agricultural system, had deep astronomy knowledge. Their calendar was used by other peoples of Central America. Maya applied hieroglyphic writing system. Now it seems that the Maya came from nowhere and disappeared nowhere.
有部分科學家認爲瑪雅人和傳奇的男像柱有關，另一些科學家認爲瑪雅人的祖先是歐洲人。瑪雅人發明了高效的農業體系，有深厚的天文學知識。中美其他民族都用瑪雅人的日曆。瑪雅人運用象形文字書寫體系。如今，似乎無人知曉瑪雅人從何而來，又如何銷聲匿跡的。
3. Prussians
3、普魯士人
Their origin itself is a mystery too. It was firstly mentioned in the IX century in the records of an anonymous merchant and later in Polish and German chronicles. Linguists find its analogies in various Indo-European languages. In the XVII began the history of Prussianism.
普魯士人源自何方也是個謎。最初在9世紀某無名商人的記錄中有記載，後來在波蘭和德國的編年史中有所提及。語言學家發現在印歐語系的多門語言中都能找到與其相類似的。普魯士精神始於17世紀。
4. Sumerians
4、蘇美爾人
Must be one of the most mysterious peoples in the ancient world. We know nothing about their origin and nothing about the origin of their language. The Sumerians were rather advanced – they became the first in the Near East to use a wheel, to create an irrigation system and their unique writing, besides, they were impressively good at maths and astronomy.
蘇美爾人一定是古時最神祕的種族之一，對於其起源及語言我們一無所知。蘇美爾人一度非常先進，在近東地區最先使用輪子、創造了灌溉系統和獨一無二的書寫體系。此外，蘇美爾人數學和天文學水平尤爲出衆。
5. Gipsies
5、吉普賽人
According to the linguistic and genetic researches, ancestors of the Gipsies left the territory of India in the amount that did not exceed 1000 people. Today there are approximately 10 million Gipsies in the world. In the Middle Ages Europeans believed that Gipsies were Egyptians.
根據語言學和遺傳學研究發現，吉普賽人的祖先離開印度領土的時候人數不超過1000人。而今，世界有一千萬吉普賽人。中世紀的歐洲人認爲吉普賽人是歐洲人。
6. Philistines
6、腓力斯人
The Philistines are the most mysterious peoples mentioned in the Bible. Only them and Hittites knew the technology of steel production and they marked the start of the Iron Age. According to the Bible, the Philistines originate from Caphtor Island (Crete).
腓力斯人是《聖經》中提到最爲神祕的種族。只有腓力斯人和赫梯人瞭解鋼鐵生產技術，標誌了鐵器時代的開始。《聖經》上說腓力斯人來自迦斐託島（克里特島）。
7. Basques
7、巴斯克人
The Basque language, Euskara, is believed to be the only relic pre-Indo-European language that does not belong to any language group that exists today. According to the research of National Geographic made in 2012 all Basques have a set of genes that are pretty much different from those of other peoples around them.
巴斯克語被視爲文化遺產，是唯一不屬於任何語言羣體的前印歐語系語言。根據《國家地理》2012年的研究，所有巴斯克人都有一組與其周邊種族大不相同的基因。
8. Sarmatians
8、薩爾馬特人
The Sarmatians left a lot of secrets. Perhaps they had matriarchy, some scientists suppose that Russian kokoshnik was invented by the Sarmatians. These people had a tradition of an artificial skull deformation, that enabled people to have egg-shaped heads.
薩爾馬特人有許多祕密。也許他們是母系社會，一些科學家認爲俄羅斯卡柯史尼克（卡柯史尼克頭冠）就是薩爾馬特人發明的。薩爾馬特人有人工顱骨變形的傳統，讓人可以擁有雞蛋形狀的頭顱。
