Lop Nur
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Lop Nur or Lop Nor is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the Lop Depression in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region
Satellite picture of the Basin of the former sea of Lop Nur; the concentric shorelines of the vanished lake are visible.
Mushroom cloud of the first Chinese nuclear weapon test, Project 596, at Lop Nur in 1964
Mask from second millennium BCE
Xiaohe Cemetery
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The Xiaohe Cemetery, also known as Ördek's Necropolis, is a Bronze Age site located to the west of Lop Nur, in Xinjiang, Western China. It contains about 330 tombs, about 160 of which were looted by g
Xiaohe cemetery (fourth layer)
Xiaohe cemetery, the Princess of Xiaohe (female mummy with Western Eurasian features)
Xiaohe cemetery (boat coffins)
Xiaohe cemetery (double-layered coffin)