The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to the first centuries BCE, [1][2][3] with a new group of individuals recently dated to between c. 2100 and 1700 BCE. [4][5] The Tarim population to which the earliest mummies belonged was agropastoral, and they lived ...

2021年10月27日 · 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...

The Tarim Basin is one of the most remote (far from oceans and seas along whose littorals early humans travelled) and last populated places on Earth. During the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods in ECA (before 2000 BCE), there is no evidence of permanent settlement in the Tarim Basin.

2021年10月27日 · Since the late 1990s, the discovery of hundreds of naturally mummified human remains dating to around 2000 bc to ad 200 in the Tarim Basin has attracted international attention due to their...

2021年10月27日 · The Tarim Basin mummies have been a mystery ever since European explorers discovered them in northwestern China in the early 20th century. They were tall, wore wool felt hats and leather booties, and some had fair hair—all suggesting they were strangers from a strange land.

2021年10月27日 · The mysterious Tarim mummies of China's western Xinjiang region are relics of a unique Bronze Age culture descended from Indigenous people, and not a remote branch of early Indo-Europeans ...

2023年9月15日 · Buried in a variety of cemeteries around the basin as long as 4,000 years ago, the naturally mummified corpses were first unearthed by European explorers in the early 20th century. Over time, more...

2021年10月27日 · Since the late 1990s, the discovery of hundreds of naturally mummified human remains dating to circa 2,000 BCE to 200 CE in the region's Tarim Basin has attracted international attention due to...

2018年10月22日 · These excavated burials from the Tarim Basin are wrapped in mystery. In northwest China, 1,600 miles from Beijing, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum in Urumqi safeguards the exceptional...

The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to 200 CE. Some of the mummies are frequently associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian languages in the Tarim Basin although the evidence is not totally conclusive.