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>Instead, in regard to the ancestry of Far Eastern peoples, racial anthropologists had long placed the origin of Chinese civilisation in the Near East, namely Babylon as suggested by French archaeologist Terrien de Lacouperie in 1894, whereby the Chinese peoples regressed compared to the superior races of Europe (degeneration theory).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Babylonian_Empire