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Look: Mysterious mummies represent an ancient "cosmopolitan" culture
Their odd, boat-shaped coffins are just the beginning.
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Wenying Li, Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
This boat-shaped coffin, complete with an oar, is the final resting place of a person who died up to 4,000 years ago in modern-day China’s Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang.
It’s just one of the hundreds of graves in the Xiaohe cemetery, which sits in the arid Tarim basin.
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