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Expert: Quink - 12/15/2000


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Are the Kurgan a REAL race of people? Thank you in advance for your time.

Mark

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Hi Mark. This is obviously a popular question, since it's listed at the Highlander FAQ...  their answer (Since I'd be saying exactly the same thing *g*):

Did the Kurgans, as a people, really exist?

Yes. According to the movie they were 'an ancient people from the steppes of Russia. For amusement, they'd toss children in pits with hungry dogs to fight for meat.' According to research, the Kurgans, a semi-nomadic pastoralist culture from Russin steppes to Danubian Europe c. 3500 BC. Around 2300 BC the Kurgans arrived in the Aegean and Adriatic regions. They buried their dead in deep shafts and were known as horse breeders. In addition, the term 'kurgan' is usually used to refer to ancient stone-age burial mounds found in Russia. Also 'Kurgan' is a city of over 200,000 in southwestern Siberia.

There's not a lot of information out there.... I did find a site selling a book about the Kurgan society, but other than the title there wasnn't a lot of info. Hope this helps :-)

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I can answer most questions about the show, the actors and characters. I also run a collection of over 1600 highlander links and I`ve carefully gone through all of them. If I don`t know something off the top of my head, I usually know where to find it. I`ve watched Highlander since 1992 when it started, and I`ve been on the internet for a year and a half. In that time I`ve visited many of the HL pages out there. As for the show, I`ve watched every episode several times and I belong to a trivia group that over the past year has covered even the most obscure facts about the show

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