Romany
According to linguistic and genetic research, the ancestors of the Roma left the territory of India in an amount that didn’t exceed 1,000 people. Today, there are about 10 million Roma in the world. In the Middle Ages the Roma in Europe were considered the Egyptians. The word Gitanes – a derivative of the Egyptian.
Tarot cards, which are considered to be the last surviving fragment of the cult of the Egyptian god Thoth, have been introduced into Europe by the Roma. Roma embalmed their dead and buried in the crypts, where laid all the necessities of life after death. These burial traditions alive in Roma even today.
