China confirms the first helium-rich gas supergiant in the Tarim Basin: Hetianhe rewrites the map of strategic resources.

Chinese researchers have identified the country’s first supergiant helium-rich gas field. Located deep beneath the Tarim ...

The Silk Road has long been known as a trade route that connected different cultures, and one area now known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was a meeting point for people with varied ...

Though they died thousands of years ago, hundreds of bodies excavated in western China’s Tarim Basin look remarkably alive. They retain the hairstyles, clothing, and accoutrements of a long-past ...

Oct. 27 (UPI) --A genomic study of the Tarim Basin mummies in western China has revealed an indigenous Bronze Age population that was genetically isolated but culturally cosmopolitan, researchers said ...

Researchers have determined the genetic origins of Asia's most enigmatic mummies. Once thought to be Indo-European speaking migrants from the West, the Bronze Age Tarim Basin mummies are revealed to ...

Since their discovery, the ancestry of hundreds of mummified bodies buried in boats in an inhospitable desert region of northwest China has puzzled and divided archaeologists. Found in the Tarim Basin ...

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—According to a Gizmodo report, an international team of researchers has analyzed the genomes of some of the oldest of the naturally preserved mummies from northwest China’s Xiaohe ...

The 1,300-kilometer long Tarim River in China does not flow to the sea but terminates at a lake system called Lake Taitema in the poor and arid Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) – China's ...

A news report from China.org.cn on China's natural resources technologies: Exploring peaks, depths, seas, and poles, China notches concrete ...

The Tarim Basin mummies' cattle-focused economy and unusual physical appearance had led some scholars to speculate that they were the descendants of migrating Yamnaya herders, a highly mobile Bronze ...