Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd; illustrated edition edition (22 May 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0500051011
ISBN-13: 978-0500051016
Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 18 x 4 cm
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The best-preserved mummies are in the museums of Xinjiang, China. For thousands of years the occupants of the Tarim deserts buried their dead in the desert sands. The mummies' faces are European, and this study tries to explain their origin.

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