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Another mummy from the same place is the "Princess of Xiaohe". The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to the first centuries BCE, [1] [2] [3] with a new group of individuals recently dated to between c. 2100 and 1700 BCE.
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.
Xin Zhui (Chinese: 辛追; [ɕín ʈʂwéɪ]; c. 217 BC –169 or 168 BC), also known as Lady Dai or the Marquise of Dai, was a Chinese noblewoman.She was the wife of Li Cang (利蒼), the Marquis of Dai, and Chancellor of the Changsha Kingdom, during the Western Han dynasty of ancient China.
[1] [2] The mummy was excavated at the eastern end of the Tarim Basin, in Loulan. The Beauty of Loulan (楼兰美女), also Beauty of Krorän or Loulan Beauty, is the preserved dead body of a woman who lived around 1800 BC in the Xinjiang region of China. Due to her excellent state of conservation, she is one of the most famous Tarim mummies.
HONG KONG — When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, archeologists discovered a mysterious substance laid out along her neck like a ...
China [39] [40] Spirit Cave mummy: USA: died about 9400 ago: St. Michan's Church mummies: Ireland: diverse lifetimes; e.g. a 400-year-old mummy of a nun: Sui Shaoyan (遂少言) China: died 67 BCE [41] Tarim mummies: China: 2000–300 BCE [42] Tetsumonkai: Japan: 1768–1829 [43] Uan Muhuggiag: Africa / Central Sahara: c. 3500 BCE: Venzone ...
Among the mummies discovered in China are those termed Tarim mummies because of their discovery in the Tarim Basin. The dry desert climate of the basin proved to be an excellent agent for desiccation. For this reason, over 200 Tarim mummies, which are over 4,000 years old, were excavated from a cemetery in the present-day Xinjiang region. [56]
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 found that the maternal lineages were a mixture of east and west Eurasian types, while all the paternal lineages were of west Eurasian type. [59]