The Silk Road has long been known as a trade route that connected different cultures, and one area now known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was a meeting point for people with varied ...

As part of the Silk Road and located at the geographical intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has long served as a major crossroads for trans-Eurasian ...

Since their discovery, the ancestry of hundreds of mummified bodies buried in boats in an inhospitable desert region of northwest China has puzzled and divided archaeologists. Found in the Tarim Basin ...

Excavations at the Aketala sites Credit: K. Cao et al. 2025 This set of sites, consisting of 51 identified locations, represents the westernmost Bronze Age settlement discovered to date in China and ...

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—According to a Gizmodo report, an international team of researchers has analyzed the genomes of some of the oldest of the naturally preserved mummies from northwest China’s Xiaohe ...

Chinese researchers have identified the country’s first supergiant helium-rich gas field. Located deep beneath the Tarim Basin, the Hetianhe field contains industrially significant concentrations ...

China’s Ministry of Land & Resources (MLR) has awarded three blocks out of five auctioned in the Tarim basin in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region to non-state oil companies, marking another step in ...

The Tarim Basin mummies' cattle-focused economy and unusual physical appearance had led some scholars to speculate that they were the descendants of migrating Yamnaya herders, a highly mobile Bronze ...

In a new study, an international team of researchers has determined the genetic origins of Asia’s most enigmatic mummies - the Tarim Basin mummies in western China. Once thought to be Indo-European ...