Tarim mummies

Philly Museum Removes Mummies after China Objects

A museum in Philadelphia has been forced to remove the remains of several mummies originating in Xinjiang from an exhibit, at the behest of Chinese officials. AP reports: The artifacts were part of “Secrets of the Silk...

Cultural Exchange: China’s Surprising Bronze Age Mummies

The Los Angeles Times visits the famous mummies from Xinjiang, now housed in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Museum in Uruqi: The most famous of them, the Beauty of Loulan, was unearthed in 1980 by Chinese archaeologists...

A Host of Mummies, a Forest of Secrets

The New York Times reports on an important new archeological find in the Taklamakan desert of Xinjiang: In the middle of a terrifying desert north of Tibet, Chinese archaeologists have excavated an extraordinary cemetery. Its...

The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn’t Care to Listen To

The New York Times reports on the mummies found and exhibited in Urumqi, Xinjiang, and explores what they can tell historians about the history of the region and its people: The Loulan Beauty is one of more than 200 remarkably...

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