Beauty of Loulan
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The Beauty of Loulan, also Beauty of Krorän or Loulan Beauty, is the preserved dead body of a woman who lived in the Xinjiang region in what is now China. Due to her excellent state of conservation, s
Tiebanhe Riverside mommie portrait
Loulan Beauty from Tiebanhe Riverside
The "Beauty of Loulan" (also "Beauty of Krorän"). Museum exhibit and detail of the face, Xinjiang Museum.
Tarim mummies
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The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to the first centuries BCE, with a new group of individuals recently da
Beauty of Loulan
…dead body of a woman who lived in the Xinjiang region in what is now China. Due to her excellent state of conservation, she is one of the most famous Tarim mummies. Exceptionally well-preserved by the elements, the body was discovered in 1980 by Chinese archaeologists alongside several other mummies. The body is…
The "Xiaohe Mummy", exhibited in Xinjiang Museum, is one of the oldest Tarim mummies, dating more than 3800 years ago. Another mummy from the same place is the "Princess of Xiaohe".
Sir Aurel Stein in the Tarim Basin, 1910
Mask from Lop Nur, China, 2000–1000 BCE
Burial XHM66 from Xiaohe cemetery, with boat-shaped coffin and mummified remains dressed in woollen garments.