Though they died thousands of years ago, hundreds of bodies excavated in western China’s Tarim Basin look remarkably alive. They retain the hairstyles, clothing, and accoutrements of a long-past ...

Called simply “Mummies” and running in the museum’s top-floor temporary exhibition spaces until May next year, the exhibition ...

The Tarim Basin Mummies have long been a mystery to experts, as they were located buried in boats, in an uninhabitable desert area of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China.

For the first time, scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years. The research ...

TARIM MUMMIES : ANCIENT CHINA AND THE MYSTERY OF THE EARLIEST PEOPLES FROM THE WEST J P MALLORY VICTOR H MAIR ...

JP Brown, associate conservator at the Field Museum in Chicago, preparing the Egyptian mummy known as the “Gilded Lady” for display at the American Museum of Natural History (© AMNH / D. Finnin) A ...