The Lancet, Volume 356, Issue 9247
, Page 2106, 16 December 2000
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)74322-1Cite or Link Using DOI
The lives of the Urumchi mummies
The mummies of Urumchi
New York: Elizabeth Wayland Barber, 1999
This unusual book, The mummies of Urumchi , takes us into several worlds where few of us have been before. Geographically, we are swept into the salt deserts of southeastern Mongolia with the author Elizabeth Barber, an archaeologist, linguist, and textile expert, as she travels to the Urumchi museum to see the mummies and their weavings. Historically, we are whisked back into the world of 2500—4000 BC when sheep were just becoming domesticated and used for their wool, grain was being harvested, a ...
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