Tarim mummies - Wikipedia
Many of the mummies have been found in very good condition, owing to the dryness of the desert and the desiccation it produced in the corpses. The mummies share many typical Caucasian body features, and many of them have their hair physically intact, ranging in color from blond to red to deep brown, and generally long, curly and braided.
Mysterious Celtic Mummies of the Gobi - New Dawn
In recent decades, however, the south east section of the desert, on the edge of Gobi, has become an oasis for archaeologists and historians, as it is here that hundreds of Caucasoid mummies have been found.
DNA Reveals These Red-Haired Chinese Mummies Come From Europe ... - Forbes
Jul 18, 2015 · Within a nondescript Bronze Age cemetery first discovered by Swedish archaeologists in 1934 and rediscovered by the Xinjiang Archaeological Institute in 2000, researchers have found the oldest and...
Bronze Age Tarim mummies aren't who scientists thought they were
Oct 27, 2021 · European explorers found the first Tarim mummies in the deserts of what's now western China in the early 20th century. Recent research has focused on the mummies from the Xiaohe tomb complex...
A meeting of civilisations: The mystery of China's celtic mummies
DNA testing confirms that he and hundreds of other mummies found in Xinjiang's Tarim Basin are of European origin. We don't know how he got there, what brought him there, or how long he and his...
The origins of the Tarim Basin mummies has long puzzled ... - CNN
Oct 27, 2021 · Since their discovery, the ancestry of hundreds of mummified bodies buried in boats in an inhospitable desert region of northwest China has divided archaeologists.
Ancient Mummies of the Tarim Basin - Expedition Magazine
Hundreds of mummies have been recovered from the Tarim Basin, some of which I describe here. Eastern Central Asia has an extremely dry environment, leading to the preservation of bodies in cemeteries such as Ördek’s Necropolis, not far from Loulan.
The Secret Life Of A Gobi Desert Shaman - Archaeology Wiki
Apr 15, 2014 · A stash of still-green marijuana alongside a group of objects found alongside an exceptionally well preserved Iron Age mummy at the Yanghai Tombs near Turpan, (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China), can shed light to the lifestyle of the person but also his long lost “tribe”, researchers suggest.
Chinese History: The White Tribes of Ancient China - Owlcation
Over 100 unique mummies were discovered in the Gobi desert in 1978. One of the most fantastic finds in the last half of the twentieth century has to be the discovery of a Northern European tribe found in the northeast corner of Xinjiang province, near the Celestial Mountains and the Taklimakan Desert on the edge of the Gobi desert.
The research on the Dugui mummies is a part of a series of recent studies on human remains from Mongolia, including human bodies preserved by the process of natural mummification.