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The best preserved of the corpses discovered at the cemetery at Zaghunluq in the Tarim Basin, is the 'Yingpan Man'. The two metres tall, 2,000 year old Caucasian mummy was discovered in 1995.<br/><br/> His face was blond and bearded and was covered with a gold foil death mask; he also wore an elaborate golden embroidered red and maroon wool garments with images of fighting. His head rests on a pillow in the shape of a crowing cockerel. The Zaghunluq cemetery contained 29 mummies, dating from 1800-500 BCE.
The Sampul tapestry is a woolen wall-hanging that was found in Sampul, near Khotan, in the Tarim Basin inside a 3rd-2nd century BCE mass grave.<br/><br/> The tapestry depicts a soldier, probably Greek, and a Centaur. It is probably a Greek work from Central Asia (Greco-Bactria) and uses more than 24 threads of different colors in a typical western technique.<br/><br/> The soldier wears a tunic with rosette motifs. His headband could be a diadem, the symbol of kingship in the Hellenistic world, as represented on Macedonian and other Greek coins. The presence of the Centaur as a motif, a typical element of Greek mythology, floral motifs, and the realistic rendering further reinforce the identification of the soldier as Greek. The tapestry was, curiously, fashioned into a pair of trousers, indicating that it may have been used as a decorative trophy.<br/><br/> The existence of this tapestry tends to suggest that contacts between the Hellenistic kingdoms of Central Asia and the Tarim Basin, at the edge of the Chinese world occurred from around the 3rd century BCE.<br/><br/>
The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to 200 CE. Some of the mummies are thought to be associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian languages in the Tarim Basin, although the evidence is not totally conclusive. Working with DNA samples, Victor H. Mair has concluded that the mummies are Caucasoid, likely speakers of an Indo-European language; that East Asian peoples began settling in the eastern portions of the Tarim Basin about 3,000 years ago... while the Uighur peoples arrived after the collapse of the Orkon Uighur Kingdom, largely based in modern day Mongolia, around the year 842.
The best preserved of the corpses discovered at the cemetery at Zaghunluq in the Tarim Basin, is the 'Yingpan Man'. The two metres tall, 2,000 year old Caucasian mummy was discovered in 1995. His face was blond and bearded and was covered with a gold foil death mask; he also wore an elaborate golden embroidered red and maroon wool garments with images of fighting. His head rests on a pillow in the shape of a crowing cockerel. The Zaghunluq cemetery contained 29 mummies, dating from 1800-500 BCE.
The best preserved of the corpses discovered at the cemetery at Zaghunluq in the Tarim Basin, is the 'Yingpan Man'. The two metres tall, 2,000 year old Caucasian mummy was discovered in 1995. His face was blond and bearded and was covered with a gold foil death mask; he also wore an elaborate golden embroidered red and maroon wool garments with images of fighting.<br/><br/> His head rests on a pillow in the shape of a crowing cockerel. The Zaghunluq cemetery contained 29 mummies, dating from 1800-500 BCE.
The Sampul tapestry is a woolen wall-hanging that was found in Sampul, near Khotan, in the Tarim Basin inside a 3rd-2nd century BCE mass grave.<br/><br/> The tapestry depicts a soldier, probably Greek, and a Centaur. It is probably a Greek work from Central Asia (Greco-Bactria) and uses more than 24 threads of different colors in a typical western technique.<br/><br/> The soldier wears a tunic with rosette motifs. His headband could be a diadem, the symbol of kingship in the Hellenistic world, as represented on Macedonian and other Greek coins. The presence of the Centaur as a motif, a typical element of Greek mythology, floral motifs, and the realistic rendering further reinforce the identification of the soldier as Greek. The tapestry was, curiously, fashioned into a pair of trousers, indicating that it may have been used as a decorative trophy.<br/><br/> The existence of this tapestry tends to suggest that contacts between the Hellenistic kingdoms of Central Asia and the Tarim Basin, at the edge of the Chinese world occurred from around the 3rd century BCE.<br/><br/>
The best preserved of the corpses discovered at the cemetery at Zaghunluq in the Tarim Basin, is the 'Yingpan Man'. The two metres tall, 2,000 year old Caucasian mummy was discovered in 1995. His face was blond and bearded and was covered with a gold foil death mask; he also wore an elaborate golden embroidered red and maroon wool garments with images of fighting. His head rests on a pillow in the shape of a crowing cockerel. The Zaghunluq cemetery contained 29 mummies, dating from 1800-500 BC.