Hundreds of mummified bodies have been found across the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, northwestern China, that date back to around 4,000 years ago. This is an aerial view of one site called Xiaohe ...

Hundreds of bodies have been excavated from cemeteries like this one around the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, a region of western China. Known as the Tarim Basin mummies, these people lived some 4,000 ...

Archaeologists have made an intriguing discovery in the deserts of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A number of ...

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, ...

In the 1990s, roughly 300 mummies dating from between 2,000 B.C. to 200 A.D. were uncovered in tombs in the Tarim Basin in China's autonomous Xinjiang Uyghur region.

One of the most famous Tarim Basin mummies is the "Princess" or "Beauty" of Xiaohe, who was buried at least 3,500 years ago. The desert environment even preserved her eyelashes. Photograph by Jae ...

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 ...

Location: Tarim Basin, China Date: 1000-600 B.C. The barren desert of China’s southern Tarim Basin has been the source of some of the ancient world’s most mysterious tattooed mummies.

For the first time, scientists have successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples discovered alongside the 3,600-year-old Tarim Basin mummies in China. This groundbreaking ...

Scientists retrieved ancient kefir cheese from Tarim Basin mummies dating back 3,500 years from the Xiaohe cemetery located in Xinjiang, Western China. By analyzing the DNA of Bronze Aged cheese ...

The researchers looked at the genetic information from the oldest Tarim Basin mummies – dating from 3,700 to 4,100 years old – together with genomes sequenced from the remains of five people ...