How did tartan-wearing Indo-Europeans come to be in Asia 2,000 years beforeWest and East admitted each other’s existence? Describing their discovery of the Tarim Mummies and revealing the attempts of scientists to determine their ethnic identity, the authors examine all the evidence connected with the mummies, including textiles and languages of the Tarim region, in this acclaimed tour-de-force of scholarship.
- ISBN13 9780500283721
- Publish Date 9 June 2008 (first published 22 May 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 August 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English