Team members must repeatedly enter the desert, often for several days or even weeks at a time. They usually invite ...

There is evidence of tattooing on mummies found in the Taklamakan Desert in China dating from 1,200 BC. Modern tattoos of the kind sported by David Beckham are thought to have developed in ...

Mummies are usually formed in very dry environments which prevent bodies from decaying. The area where the body was found is on the northern edge of the plateau close to Taklamakan Desert. It was on a ...

URUMQI, April 27 (Xinhua) — Living on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert - the world's second-largest shifting-sand wilderness - presents daily challenges, from extreme temperatures to relentless ...

Somewhere in the sands of the Sahara and the sands of time, there might be hidden mummies or artifacts waiting to tell us more about what life was like in the desert before it dried out.

China's largest desert is now encircled by thousands of trees. The forest currently stretches over about 2,000 miles around the Taklamakan desert in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.

Drilling on a new swath of ultra-deep crude oil wells in the depths of the Taklamakan Desert, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has started after the Spring Festival holiday ...

China has encircled the Taklamakan desert, the country’s largest and the world’s second-largest shifting desert, with a 3,050-kilometre green belt of vegetation and sand-blocking technology ...

NANJING, China, Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In November, China has successfully encircled the Taklamakan Desert, often called the "sea of death", the country's largest and the world's second-largest ...