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The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West
The Tarim Mummies Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West
Author: J. P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair
The best-preserved mummies in the world are not found in Egypt or Peru but in the museums of Xinjiang, the westernmost province of modern China. For thousands of years the occupants of the barren wastes and oases that would later become the Silk Road buried their dead in the desiccating sands of the Tklimakan, the second greatest desert on earth...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780500051016
ISBN-10: 0500051011
Publication Date: 6/2000
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Thames Hudson
Book Type: Hardcover
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