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  2. Tarim mummies - Wikipedia

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    The Tarim Basin, with the Taklamakan Desert, and area of the Tarim mummies ( ) with main burial sites. Sir Aurel Stein in the Tarim Basin, 1910. At the beginning of the 20th century, European explorers such as Sven Hedin, Albert von Le Coq and Sir Aurel Stein all recounted their discoveries of desiccated bodies in their search for antiquities in Central Asia. [14]

  3. Princess of Xiaohe - Wikipedia

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    The Princess of Xiaohe (Chinese: 小河公主) or Little River Princess was found in 2003 at Xiaohe Cemetery in Lop Nur, Xinjiang.She is one of the Tarim mummies, and is known as M11 for the tomb she was found in. Buried approximately 3,800 years ago, she has European and Siberian genes [1] [2] and has white skin and red hair.

  4. Tocharians - Wikipedia

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    The oldest of the Tarim mummies, bodies preserved by the desert conditions, date from 2000 BC and were found on the eastern edge of the Tarim Basin. The mummies have been described as being both "Caucasoid" and "Mongoloid", and mixed-race individuals are also observed. [58] A genetic study of remains from the oldest layer of the Xiaohe Cemetery ...

  5. Qäwrighul culture - Wikipedia

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    The Qäwrighul culture (after the Tarim Basin cemetery of Qäwrighul, also named 古墓溝 Gumugou in Chinese) is a late Bronze Age culture which flourished along the Kongque River in Xinjiang from ca. 2100 BC to 1500 BC, and is one of the cultures of the Tarim mummies. [1]

  6. Category:Tarim mummies - Wikipedia

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  7. World's oldest cheese found on ancient Chinese mummies

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    Its production was depicted on wall murals in ancient Egyptian tombs in 2000 BC, and traces of the practice in Europe date back almost 7,000 years, but scientists say the Tarim Basin samples are ...

  8. Beauty of Loulan - Wikipedia

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    The mummy was found on April 1, 1980, in the Tiebanhe cemetery (铁板河墓) near Loulan, on the Silk Road in the Xinjiang, by Chinese archaeologist Mu Shunying (穆舜英) and members of the Archaeological Institute of the Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences. She is one of the Tarim mummies, named after where they were found, the Tarim Basin. [3]

  9. 4,400-year-old tomb — with a preserved mummy inside ...

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    Analysis of the mummy revealed the official lived to be 65 years old, much older than expected during that time period. The mastaba was discovered between Abusir and Saqqara, pyramid fields south ...