(Wenying Li/Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology) (CN) — Much of what is known about the people who occupied the Tarim basin in what is now Xinjiang, China, during the Bronze Age ...
The human remains were recovered from some of hundreds of coffins found in the Xiaohe Cemetery in China's Tarim Basin in the 1990s. Smeared across the heads and necks of a number of the mummified ...
On the south of Tianshan Mountains lies the Tarim Basin. Scattered in the middle of is the Hami Basin, known globally for its juicy Hami melons, Turpan Basin aka The Flaming Mountains, and the Ili ...
The cheese dates back around 3,500 years and was buried alongside mummies in the Tarim Basin in far west China. The team found the DNA of goats and fermenting microbes from Bronze Age dairy samples.
The oases of the Tarim Basin connected China to India and the Tibetan empire across the Himalayas. The hoard in the Mogao ...