In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert. They had long reddish-blond hair, European features and didn't appear to be the ancestors ...

Recent research has focused on the mummies from the Xiaohe tomb complex on the eastern edge of the Taklamakan Desert. The naturally mummified remains, desiccated by the desert, were thought by ...

Among the most well-preserved are the Tarim mummies of Xinjiang, China, who were buried in boat-shaped coffins up to 4,000 years ago in the Taklamakan Desert. For a handful unfortunate Iranian ...

For millennia, the Taklamakan Desert environment preserved more than ... samples of the 3,500-year-old cheese that bedecked the mummies’ necks. An analysis of proteins in those bits revealed ...

These mummies seem to suggest ... combs and a feather. The Taklamakan desert has given up hundreds of desiccated corpses in the past 25 years, and archaeologists say the discoveries in the ...

A decade after the dairy discovery on strikingly intact remains mummified by the Taklamakan Desert’s arid conditions ... the so-called Tarim Basin mummies and their assortment of cultural ...