She was buried in a red dress and white deerskin boots. Though found in China, evidence suggests she came from Europe.
Visitors tend to tiptoe and lower their voices.
He would have been an imposing figure in life, for he once stood six feet six inches tall. So writes Elizabeth Barber of the one known as Cherchen Man. Clad in finely woven woolens, he almost looks as if he could rise out of bed and begin another day in what must have been a difficult life. Cherchen Man has been dead for about 3,000 years. Though his lips no longer move, he speaks volumes about the first settlers in a bleak desert along China's fabled Silk Road.