Mummies from Xinjiang

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(1) Scarlet Cheng, Silk Road treasures; Mummies and other artifacts found
along the fabled route in China are the stars of a new exhibition at the
Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. Los Angeles Times, Mar. 28, 2010.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-silk-2010mar28,0,7408004.story

Note:
(a) Bowers Museum
http://www.bowers.org/
("Founded in 1936 by the City of Santa Ana through a bequest from Charles
and Ada Bowers, the Bowers Museum is one of California's finest and Orange
County's largest museums.")
(b) Beauty of Xiaohe: Xiaohe refers to 小河 (墓地)
(c) Nicholas Wade, A Host of Mummies, a Forest of Secrets. New York Times,
Mar. 16, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/science/16archeo.html?scp=1&sq=mummy&st=cse

The NYT report mentioned Beauty of Loulan 楼兰美女, which is different from
Beauty of Xiaohe.


(2) Karen Kaplan, Chinese mummies bring surprises to surface
An exhibit in Santa Ana displays 4,000-year-old mummies with European
ancestry, found in the arid lands north of Tibet. Los Angeles Times, Mar. 26
, 2010.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-mummiesqa27-2010mar27,0,880911.story

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