We do not always look at yahoo news but the other day, we found this interesting article- New Details of ‘Extraordinarily Preserved,’ 4,000-Year-Old Mummies Emerge Before Halloween– However, everything we have talked about before still applies to these mummies.
The question is, why was it posted in the entertainment section of that website?
Scientists may have finally solved a decades-old mystery about the origins of a group of surprisingly preserved mummies found in China’s Tarim Basin during the 1990s.
In a report published in Nature, researchers announced that the group of mummies that many believed were migrants who had traveled to China to share farming practices may have been indigenous people who learned agricultural techniques from neighboring groups.
Or they were looking for an ancient Kibutz to work on. It is doubtful that the researchers will stumble across the truth. They would need ancient contemporary documents to verify what they claim.
“The mummies have long fascinated scientists and the public alike since their original discovery. Beyond being extraordinarily preserved, they were found in a highly unusual context, and they exhibit diverse and far-flung cultural elements,” said study co-author Christina Warinner, a molecular archaeologist at Harvard University,
The mummies were first discovered in the early twentieth century in the Xinjiang region of China, a desert area that is known for being “one of the most hostile places on Earth,” Alison Betts, an archaeologist at the University of Sydney in Australia,” said in a statement.
The bodies were buried in boat-shaped coffins and wrapped in cattle hide, which, combined with the hot and salty environment of the desert, kept them naturally preserved, the researchers said.
It is a story worth checking out and doing some extra research on.
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