The Silk Road has long been known as a trade route that connected different cultures, and one area now known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was a meeting point for people with varied ...

As part of the Silk Road and located at the geographical intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has long served as a major crossroads for trans-Eurasian ...

Oct. 27 (UPI) --A genomic study of the Tarim Basin mummies in western China has revealed an indigenous Bronze Age population that was genetically isolated but culturally cosmopolitan, researchers said ...

With over 300 tombs, the Little River (Xiaohe) Cemetery, a Bronze Age burial located in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, Western China, contains the largest number of mummies found at any single site to ...

Excavations at the Aketala sites Credit: K. Cao et al. 2025 This set of sites, consisting of 51 identified locations, represents the westernmost Bronze Age settlement discovered to date in China and ...

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—According to a Gizmodo report, an international team of researchers has analyzed the genomes of some of the oldest of the naturally preserved mummies from northwest China’s Xiaohe ...

TURFAN, CHINA—Science News reports that an international team of archaeologists, fashion designers, geoscientists, chemists, and conservators led by Mayke Wagner of the German Archaeological Institute ...

Researchers examined the genomic data of thirteen Tarim Basin mummies and traced them to the Ancient North Eurasians (ANE) ...

China’s Ministry of Land & Resources (MLR) has awarded three blocks out of five auctioned in the Tarim basin in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region to non-state oil companies, marking another step in ...

In a new study, an international team of researchers has determined the genetic origins of Asia’s most enigmatic mummies - the Tarim Basin mummies in western China. Once thought to be Indo-European ...

The Tarim Basin mummies' cattle-focused economy and unusual physical appearance had led some scholars to speculate that they were the descendants of migrating Yamnaya herders, a highly mobile Bronze ...