'Loulan Beauty' unearthed, but still sleeps eternal slumber
By Wang Qian | China Daily | Updated: 2009-05-16 07:54
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Visitors view the Loulan Beauty, the first mummy found at the Xiaohe Tombs, now in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum. Yang Shizhong |
URUMQI: When the coffin's millennia-old cowhide bindings made an audible snap as they broke free in late 2004, Yidilisi Abuduresule felt tears well up in his eyes and could almost hear a voice from 3,800 years ago.
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