The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum houses a collection of mummies, beautifully and naturally preserved by the dry desert climate and salty deposits of a long-ago dried up salt lake.
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| yellow face paint is still crisp and vivid |
These mummies, dated at approximately 1800 BC, have stirred up quite a controversy with the Chinese government when genetic testing in 2005 revealed them to be Caucasian, not Mongoloid - proving that Caucasians roamed China's Tarim deserts about 1,000 years before East Asian people arrived.
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| long blonde braids |
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