The Tarim Basin is located in the modern-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, land claimed by China’s Uyghur minority. Uyghur nationalists claim the mummies are their forbears, ...

The Bronze Age Xiaohe culture (ca. 1950–1400 BCE) is renowned for its distinctive funerary practices and exceptional organic ...

They have also raised a few chickens — Huang fondly dubbed them her "desert chickens" — fed with grains and fruit scraps. In ...

The Tarim Basin mummies were discovered wearing tiny hunks of cheese around their necks—and a new DNA analysis is revealing its origins. A mummy from the Xiaohe cemetery wears a necklace of cheese.

A new study reexamines China’s ancient Xiaohe boat burials, revealing fresh insights into Bronze Age funerary rituals in ...

The Tarim Basin, home to the Taklamakan Desert—the world's second-largest shifting sandy desert—has long experienced extremely arid conditions, with annual precipitation below 50 mm, ...

Location: Tarim Basin, China Date: 1000-600 B.C. The barren desert of China’s southern Tarim Basin has been the source of some of the ancient world’s most mysterious tattooed mummies.

Since the woman’s coffin was covered and buried in the dry climate of the Tarim Basin desert, Fu said, it was well preserved, as were her boots, hat and the cheese that laced her body.

That project is located at the Tarim Basin in China’s northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. If completed, they would be among two of the deepest human-made boreholes in the world.

Sinopec Corp said on Tuesday it had struck sizeable oil and gas flows in an exploration well in the Tarim basin at a depth of 8,591 meters (5.34 miles) below the surface, another breakthrough in ...