The Mummies of Urumchi - Softcover

Barber, Elizabeth Wayland

 
9780393320190: The Mummies of Urumchi
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393320197 ISBN 13: 9780393320190
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2000

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Some of Ürümchi's mummies date back as far as 4,000 years―contemporary with the famous Egyptian mummies but even more beautifully preserved. Surprisingly, these prehistoric people are not Asian but Caucasoid―tall, large-nosed and blond with thick beards and round eyes. What were these blond Caucasians doing in the heart of Asia? What language did they speak? Might they be related to a "lost tribe" known from later inscriptions? Few clues are offered by their pottery or tools, but their clothes―woolens that rarely survive more than a few centuries―have been preserved as brightly hued as the day they were woven. Elizabeth Wayland Barber describes these remarkable mummies and their clothing, and deduces their path to this remote, forbidding place. The result is a book like no other―a fascinating unveiling of an ancient, exotic, nearly forgotten world. A finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Elizabeth Wayland Barber is the author of Prehistoric Textiles, The Mummies of Ürümchi, and The Dancing Goddesses, among other works. She is professor emerita of archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College, and lives in Utah.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393320197
ISBN 13 
9780393320190
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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