Hundreds of naturally mummified bodies buried in wooden boat-shaped coffins have been emerging from China's Tarim Basin since the 1990s. Their tall stature and cattle‑centric culture convinced ...

The Silk Road has long been known as a trade route that connected different cultures, and one area now known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was a meeting point for people with varied ...

Since their discovery, the ancestry of hundreds of mummified bodies buried in boats in an inhospitable desert region of northwest China has puzzled and divided archaeologists. Found in the Tarim Basin ...

As part of the Silk Road and located at the geographical intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has long served as a major crossroads for trans-Eurasian ...

The mummies, which date back 4,000 years, were initially discovered a century ago in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, China Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started ...

A naturally mummified woman from burial M11 of the Xiaohe cemetery. (Wenying Li/Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology) (CN) — Much of what is known about the people who occupied the ...

Oct. 27 (UPI) --A genomic study of the Tarim Basin mummies in western China has revealed an indigenous Bronze Age population that was genetically isolated but culturally cosmopolitan, researchers said ...

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—According to a Gizmodo report, an international team of researchers has analyzed the genomes of some of the oldest of the naturally preserved mummies from northwest China’s Xiaohe ...

Archeologists have long been stumped by an exceptionally preserved set of mummies found in boats in the middle of a China desert. A study published in the journal Nature says said the mummies are ...