Archaeologists have made an intriguing discovery in the deserts of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A number of well-preserved mummies,dating back as far as 2,000 BCE, have been unearthed in ...
HONG KONG — When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, archeologists discovered a mysterious substance laid out along her neck like a piece of ...
“Regular cheese is soft. This is not. It has now become really dry, dense and hard dust,” said Fu Qiaomei, a paleogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the co-author of a study ...