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  • DNA reveals unexpected origins of enigmatic mummies buried in a Chinese desert

    10/31/2021 2:52:11 AM PDT · by blueplum · 6 replies
    CNN ^ | 28 October 2021 | Katie Hunt, CNN
    (CNN)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.... Their Western looks; felted and woven wool clothing; and the cheese, wheat and millet found in their unusual graves suggested they were long-disticance herders.... However, a new study by Chinese, European and American researchers that analyzed the DNA of these 13 mummies, sequencing their genomes for the first time, has painted a different picture. Their analysis suggested that the remains did not belong to newcomers but a local group descended from an ancient ice...