Environmental Graffiti

The Mystery Behind the 5,000 Year Old Tarim Mummies

The door creaked open, and there in the gloom of the room, perfectly preserved despite the passing of thousands of years, a red-haired mummy with Caucasian features stared back. It was a life-changing moment for archaeologist Victor Mair, which ten years on still gave him chills. Mair had happened upon the recently discovered corpses of a man and his family in a museum in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, but the shock waves of the find would be felt far and wide.

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