The mummies of Ür (4) (Bmchi
In the museums of Ürümchi, the windswept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as Chinese Turkestan), a collection of ancient mummies lies at the center of an enormous mystery.
Print Book, English, c1999
1st ed
W.W. Norton & Company, New York, c1999
240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
9780393320190, 0393320197
1322679930
Mystery mummies
A man with ten hats
Plus three women and a baby
The "beauty of Loulan"
The early explorers
Tokharians and other hairy barbarians
Hami and Hallstatt
The oasis hoppers and their kin
Pulses in the heart of a continent
Sands of the silk road, sands of time