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China: About two thousand years old, Yingpan man died at around thirty and was buried in elaborate clothing with a gold face mask.

The best preserved of the corpses discovered at the cemetery at Zaghunluq in the Tarim Basin, is the 'Yingpan Man'. The two metres tall, 2,000 year old Caucasian mummy was discovered in 1995. His face was blond and bearded and was covered with a gold foil death mask; he also wore an elaborate golden embroidered red and maroon wool garments with images of fighting. His head rests on a pillow in the shape of a crowing cockerel. The Zaghunluq cemetery contained 29 mummies, dating from 1800-500 BC.
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China: About two thousand years old, Yingpan man died at around thirty and was buried in elaborate clothing with a gold face mask.
The best preserved of the corpses discovered at the cemetery at Zaghunluq in the Tarim Basin, is the 'Yingpan Man'. The two metres tall, 2,000 year old Caucasian mummy was discovered in 1995. His face was blond and bearded and was covered with a gold foil death mask; he also wore an elaborate golden embroidered red and maroon wool garments with images of fighting. His head rests on a pillow in the shape of a crowing cockerel. The Zaghunluq cemetery contained 29 mummies, dating from 1800-500 BC.
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