Recent research has focused on the mummies from the Xiaohe tomb complex on the eastern edge of the Taklamakan Desert. The naturally mummified remains, desiccated by the desert, were thought by ...

For millennia, the Taklamakan Desert environment preserved more than ... samples of the 3,500-year-old cheese that bedecked the mummies’ necks. An analysis of proteins in those bits revealed ...

Among the most well-preserved are the Tarim mummies of Xinjiang, China, who were buried in boat-shaped coffins up to 4,000 years ago in the Taklamakan Desert. For a handful unfortunate Iranian ...

Yellow chunks of the world's oldest "cheese" may have been discovered on the bodies of mummies buried in China's Taklamakan Desert. The mummies, which are each about 3,800 years old, were buried ...

In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert. They had long reddish-blond hair, European features and didn't appear to be the ancestors ...

These mummies seem to suggest ... combs and a feather. The Taklamakan desert has given up hundreds of desiccated corpses in the past 25 years, and archaeologists say the discoveries in the ...

A decade after the dairy discovery on strikingly intact remains mummified by the Taklamakan Desert’s arid conditions ... the so-called Tarim Basin mummies and their assortment of cultural ...

Team members must repeatedly enter the desert, often for several days or even weeks at a time. They usually invite experienced drivers to form a fleet of sport utility vehicles stocked with fuel, food ...

Yellow chunks of the world's oldest "cheese" may have been discovered on the bodies of mummies buried in China's Taklamakan Desert. The mummies, which are each about 3,800 years old, were buried ...