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The mummies of Ürümchi / Elizabeth Wayland Barber.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0393045218
  • ISBN: 9780393045215
  • Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Mystery mummies -- A man with ten hats -- Plus three women and a baby -- The "beauty of Loulan" -- The early explorers -- Tokharians and other hairy barbarians -- Hami and Hallstatt -- The oasis hoppers and their kin -- Pulses in the heart of a continent -- Sands of the silk road, sands of time.
Subject:
Mummies > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Bronze age > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Textile fabrics, Prehistoric > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Textile fabrics, Prehistoric > China > Sinkiang Autonomous Region.
Mummies > China (Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region)
Bronze age > China (Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region)
Textile fabrics, Prehistoric > China (Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region)
Tarim Basin (China) > Antiquities.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) > Antiquities.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Jacksonville Main Library 393.3 B (Text) 36015000682373 Adult Nonfiction Available -