With slit throats and broken skulls, these individuals may have been victims of ritual sacrifice, just like the mummies of China's Takla Makan Desert. Photos: (4) courtesy The Mountain Institute ...

Archaeologists now think they may have been the citizens of an ancient civilization that existed at the crossroads between China and Europe. Mummies of "Tomb 2" This mummy of a young woman was ...

Experts have narrowed down the origins of mysterious mummies found in ... The discovery of hundreds of human mummies in the deserts of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region equally confused ...