Headline needs correcting. It should read "2803 yo mummy" since they found it 3 years ago. LOL
Actually, Aurel Stein discovered them a hundred year ago but didn't recognise their ancient age.
"Aurel Stein --- a Hungarian in the British service in India --- was eminent among its re-discoverers. His three expeditions, of 1900, 1906 and 1913, into Chinese Turkestan --- nowadays Sinkiang, or Xinjiang, or even the Uighur Autonomous Region --- lasted seven years altogether and covered some forty thousand kilometers the way the ancient caravans had, on foot or pony-back"