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	Tarim Basin
		The Tarim Basin is one of the largest endorheic drainage basins in the world, lying between several mountain ranges in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China's far west.
		The Silk road in the Tarim Basin between Kashgar (Template:Coor dm) and Yumen (Template:Coor dm) split in two routes, along the northern and the southern edges of the Taklamakan.
		The Chinese managed to take control of the Tarim Basin from the Xiongnu at the end of the 1st century CE under the leadership of general Ban Chao (32-102 CE).
	buddhism.2be.net /Tarim_Basin (646 words)

	Tarim mummies - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tarim mummies are a series of Caucasoid mummies which have been excavated in the Tarim Basin (Eastern Central Asia, today the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China), and dated to the 2nd and 1st millenium BC.
		These mummies are indicative of the migrations of Indo-European people far to the East at a very early period, suggesting the possibility of cultural exchange with the Chinese world since around 1000 BC.
		The first mummies were found at the beginning of the 20th century, through the expeditions of Europeans into Central Asia, in particular by the explorer Sir Aurel Stein.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Tarim_mummies (618 words)

	Mummy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Chinese mummies of an Indo-European type have been found in the Tarim Basin dating to as early as 1600 BC and suggesting very ancient contacts between the east and the west.
		Mummies were also believed to have medicinal properties, and were sold as pharmaceuticals in powdered form.
		Mummies have been used in medicine, to calibrate CAT scan machines at levels of radiation that would be too dangerous for use on living people.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Mummy (2492 words)

	Mummy
		A mummy is a corpse whose Skin and flesh have been preserved by deliberate or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold or dryness, or airlessness.
		The most famous ancient mummy is Ötzi the Iceman, frozen in a Glacier in the Ötztaler Alps around 3300 BC and found 1991.
		Such mummies are remarkably well preserved, with skin and internal organs surviving as well as skeletons; it is even possible to determine what their last meal was by examining their stomach contents.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/mu/Mummy.htm (2066 words)

	"Mystery of the mummies"
		Some scholars believe the Tarim Basin people probably migrated through central Eurasia to the land that, centuries later, became known as the southern leg of the famous Silk Route linking East and West.
		Among the corpses Mair saw that day were the mummies of a man and woman from a joint grave and an infant that had been buried nearby.
		He became determined to hunt down the Tarim Basin people's history in the early 1990s, after the frozen 4,000-year-old body of a man was found preserved in the Alps on the Austria-Italy border.
	sln.fi.edu /inquirer/mummy.html (1569 words)

	The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom) - Mummy
		A mummy is a corpse whose skin and dried flesh have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold or dryness, or airlessness.
		Very different from the study of mummies as preserved human bodies, is the study of mummy wrappings, and cases, and attached painted portraits, as objects of art.
		This consisssted of a priest touching the mouth of the mummy or mummy case with a hooked stick, symbolically opening the mouth of the mummy so that it could breathe and speak in the next life.
	www.book-of-thoth.com /thebook/index.php/Mummy (3125 words)

	Mummy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A mummy is a corpse whose skin and dried flesh have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold or dryness, or airlessness.
		The most famous ancient mummy is Ötzi the Iceman, frozen in a glacier in the Ötztal Alps around 3300 BC and found in 1991.
		Mummies have been used in medicine, to calibrate CAT scan machines at levels of radiation that would be too dangerous for use on living people.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Mummy (2157 words)

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		Mummies of an Indo-European type have been found in China's Tarim Basin, dating to as early as 1600 BC and suggesting very ancient contacts between the east and the west.
		Some of the best-preserved mummies date from the Inca period in Peru some 500 years ago, where children were ritually sacrificed and placed on the summits of mountains in the Andes.
		They are accidental modern mummies and were literally "dug up" between the years 1896 and 1958 when a local law required relatives of the deceased to pay a kind of grave tax.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=mummy (2578 words)

	Tarim - Encyclopedia.com
		Tarim, Mandarin Dayan, chief river of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, NW China, c.1,300 mi (2,090 km) long, formed by the union of the Aksu and the Yarkant rivers at the western end of the Taklimakan desert, and flowing generally east, along the northern edge of the desert, to Lop Nur, a largely dried-up salt lake.
		The river, which is silt-laden, gives its name to the arid Tarim basin, a great depression, c.800 mi (1,290 km) long and 400 mi (640 km) wide, surrounded by the lofty Tian Shan, Kunlun, and Pamir mountains; the Taklimakan occupies most of the basin.
		The Tarim mummies begins with a simple question: who were the people...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Tarim.html (1066 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tarim Basin
		The Tarim Basin is one of the largest endorheic basins in the world, occupying an area of more than 400,000 km².
		The Han Chinese managed to take control of the Tarim Basin from the Xiongnu at the end of the 1st century CE under the leadership of general Ban Chao (32-102 CE).
		The Tarim Basin is believed to contain large reserves of petroleum and natural gas.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Tarim_Basin (878 words)

	Suchmaschine
		Mummies of an Indo-European type have been found in China's Tarim Basin, dating to as early as 1600 BC and suggesting very ancient contacts between the east and the west.
		They are accidental modern mummies and were literally "dug up" between the years 1896 and 1958 when a local law required relatives of the deceased to pay a kind of grave tax.
		Mummy heads were sold as souvenirs and displayed in homes during the 19th-century.
	www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Mummy (2895 words)

	۞ The Tarim Mummies - Rezensionen und Empfehlungen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One concerns connecting the so-called "witches' hat" of the Tarim (p 220) to the head-gear of the western European witch.
		By and large throughout the book Mair and Mallory are walking the tightrope of tenuous linguistic reconstructions in an effort to establish the possibility of Indo-Europeans dispersing eastward from somehwere in the grasslands of South Russia, transmitting cultural features to China.
		In the final analysis they have to admit that the role of the Tarim mummies is still far from clear in this respect.
	www.geotoday.de /_am/0500051011 (871 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: )
		First investigating the mummies in the late 1980s when he came across them in a museum in Xinjiang, it was only recently that Mair was allowed to remove bone samples for testing overseas.
		Earlier tests on the clothing of the mummies had already linked the particular twill weave of their garments to similar textile designs found in ancient tombs in central Europe.
		Mair says much still remains unknown about the mummies' backgrounds and is hoping with the lifting of political red tape, he may finally unlock mysteries buried for thousands of years.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/287BAEC9-50D2-47D5-AAA7-A1EFA044B590.htm (874 words)

	info: Tarim_mummies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tarim mummies are a series of Caucasoid mummies which have been excavated in the Tarim Basin (Eastern Central Asia, today the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China), and dated to the 2nd and 1st millennium BC.
		The first mummies were found by Europeans at the beginning of the 20th century, through the expeditions of Sir Aurel Stein and others into Central Asia.
		Many of the mummies have been found in very good condition, owing to the dryness of the desert, and the desiccation of the corpses it induced.
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Tarim_mummies.html (2008 words)

	Nieuwsselectie: Wetenschap & Onderwijs
		Het is een schitterend geïllustreerde uitgave waarin het complexe onderwerp van de Chinese mummies zorgvuldig en met grote kennis van zaken in zijn context is geplaatst.
		Of het moest zijn dat er Kelten in het spel zouden zijn.
		Het verrassende was nu dat het weefpatroon van de wollen omslagdoeken die sommige mummies uit Xinjiang droegen sprekend leek op dat van de doeken die in de zoutmijnen nabij Hallstatt in Oostenrijk zijn opgedoken en die van 1300-400 v.Chr.
	www.nrc.nl /W2/Nieuws/2001/03/31/Vp/wo.html (1774 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Khotan
		Khotan is recently famous for the discovery of caucasoid mummies, which are evidence of long term inhabitation of the area by the Tocharians.
		For much of this period it was a key entry point for Indian trade and culture into the Tarim basin and became an important and influential centre of Buddhist learning and culture in its own right.
		The oasis of Khotan is strategically located at the junction of the southern (and most ancient) branch of the famous “Silk Route” joining China and the West with one of the main routes from India and Tibet to Central Asia and China.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Khotan (2137 words)

	Taklamakan Desert
		The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BC to AD 200.
		The mummies, particularly the early ones, are associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian languages in the Tarim Basin.
		The cemetery at Yanbulaq contained 29 mummies which date from 1800500 BC, 21 of which are Caucasoid - the earliest Caucasoid mummies found in the Tarim basin -and 8 of which are of the same Caucasoid physical type found at Qawrighul.
	www.crystalinks.com /taklamakan.html (494 words)

	Tarim: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		TARIM darem, Mandarin Dayan, chief river of Xinjiang Uygur...The river, which is silt-laden, gives its name to the arid Tarim basin, a great depression, c.800 mi (1,290 km) long and...nuclear-testing center is located at the eastern end of the Tarim basin, near Lop Nur.
		Xinjiangs rivers, including the Tarim, Yarkant, Ili, Manas, and Hotan, rise in...a grazing region to the north, and the Tarim basin (Taklimakan), a vast desert to the...Nur, a largely dried-up salt lake in the Tarim basin, is the site of Chinese nuclear test...
		It is the hub of an important commercial district, the western terminus of the main road of the province, and a center for...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/tarim.jsp?l=T (1512 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Silent Giants as Guides on an Ancient Thoroughfare - New York Times
		There is something both horrible and endearing about mummies, with their hollow eyes and shrunken skins, their defiance of fleshly disintegration and their status as mute witnesses of ancient times.
		Barber, whose ''Mummies of Urumchi'' is an ingenious and far-reaching exposition of the meaning of Cherchen Man, the Beauty of Loulan and various other archeological finds to which she makes reference.
		The migration of the people who were the ancestors of the Urumchi mummies had to come after 4,000 B.C., which was the earliest that wheat and wool could have reached the places where they lived.
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	Culture
		Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833 - 1905) considers the Valley of Pamir and Tarim in Uyghur Region to be the center of the first civilization,The desolate wastes of the Takla Makan Desert, Uyghur Region, at the heart of central Asia, are haunted by an ancient mystery.
		Some of their cities were located remarkably close to the ancient mummy graveyards in the Takla Makan, suggesting that this mysterious tribe may be connected to the mummy people.
		In 1978, the first of the mummies was found by the Chinese archaeologist Wang Binghua at Qizilchoqa, east of Urumqi which is the capital of the Uyghur Region.
	uyghur.50megs.com /photo3.html (1265 words)

	Tarim mummies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These mummies give support to the idea of migrations of speakers of Indo-European languages at a very early period, suggesting the possibility of cultural exchange with the Chinese world since around 1000 BC.
		The first mummies were found at the beginning of the 20th century, through the expeditions of Europeans into Central Asia, in particular by the explorer Sir Aurel Stein.
		Most of these Europoid mummies were found on the southern part of the Tarim Basin (Khotan, Niya, Cherchen) and in the eastern parts around the area of Lopnur (Subeshi near Turfan, Kroran, Qumul).
	www.pillscatalog.net /Tarim_mummies.html (1149 words)

	XINJIANG MUMMIES ... - Thorn Tree Travel Forum - Lonely Planet
		The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies which have been excavated in the Tarim Basin (Eastern Central Asia, today the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China), and dated to the 2nd and 1st millennium BC.
		Unlike the roughly contemporaneous mummies of ancient Egypt, the Xinjiang mummies were not rulers or nobles; they were not interred in pyramids or other such monuments, nor were they subjected to deliberate mummification procedures.
		They are described in "the mummies of Urumqi" by Elizabeth Wayland barber and in "The Tarim mummies" by J.P.Mallory and Victor H. Mair.
	thorntree.lonelyplanet.com /messagepost.cfm?postaction=reply&catid=19&threadid=1357531&messid=11900072&iCountryId=84 (1229 words)

	0500051011-28 Mallory: The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. Hardback.
		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.
	www.atleest.com /en-us/p_5399.html (111 words)

	The Mystery of the Tarim Basin Mummies by Terri Edwards; nonfiction culture history
		The Tarim Basin in the Taklamakan Desert is one such place, and it is one of the harshest environments on earth.
		One of the most famous of the Tarim Basin mummies is the body of a young woman known as "The Beauty of Loulan".
		This mummy is one of several which Mair "rediscovered" in 1988 in a room in the Museum of Urumqi.
	www.pikerpress.com /article.cfm?form.id=1309 (1193 words)

	Mummy News Home Page
		One of the most touching exhibits is the mummy of a baby girl who probably died in about 800 B.C. The colors of her felt burial clothing are as bright as they must have been three millennia ago: a deep blue cap and double-layered wine-red blanket, wrapped around with twists of blue and red wool.
		Her fine woven dress and cape are also far from the coarse peasant dress she probably wore before a horrific honour was bestowed on her: she was chosen to be abandoned on a mountain top, a living sacrifice to the gods.
		Alfredo Narvaez said the mummies, who were both men and women and of various ages, were found under tons of dirt and stones, along with several pieces of pottery.
	www.mummytombs.com /main.news.htm (7646 words)

	yourdomain.com Meshrep.com -- Meshrep Maydani View topic - Dr. Mair's Take on Tarim Mummies
		Yes, the unique ethnicity of the mummies is the subject of his research, but one get the impression that his scientific judgment is compromised by his zeal about race.
		For example, those mummies look as diverse as today's living population of Tarim Basin, and many Caucasian mummies were buried alongside with mixed race mummies in the same graves.
		Yes, the mummy peoples lived in the Tarim Basin for thousands of years as their immortalized bodies bear witness, therefore it is their homeland as much as ours.
	www.meshrep.com /wforum/viewtopic.php?p=44984 (2666 words)

	Activities - Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com
		Use the clues provided by each mummy to decipher who they were, how they died, and what their cultures were like.
		You've been asked to study two mummies: An Egyptian mummy believed to be a princess, and an Inca mummy found frozen on a mountaintop in Peru.
		Your mission is to decipher the clues to learn everything you can about the mummies, such as who they were (their gender and social class) and how they died.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/activities/17/mummies.html (642 words)

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