Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...
Old Remains of 'Red Princess of the Silk Road' Reveal Rare Belief That Souls Resided in Teeth The Silk Road, a huge network ...
Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand years ago, a town called Jiaohe was built forth kilometers from today's town of Turpan. Jiaohe then was ...
Research led by Jilin University and Texas A&M University has documented the first known case of cinnabar-stained teeth in ...
a time when Turpan was a major center of the Silk Road. Experts have suggested she may have been at the heart of shamanic practices that illustrate the beliefs of her time, according to SciencePost.
It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial ... near a Chinese town called Turpan, paid 40 bolts of raw silk for an 11-year-old slave girl. To the southeast, a thousand years before ...
The Turpan Basin is not rich in this mineral ... The case of the Red Princess of the Silk Road raises more questions than answers. While it has been determined that the red pigment is cinnabar and was ...
Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand years ago, a town called Jiaohe was built forth kilometers from today’s town of Turpan. Jiaohe then was ...