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The 4,000-Year-Old Mummies That Looked Wrong

In the deserts of western China lie hundreds of bodies, thousands of years old, so perfectly preserved you can still see the colour of their hair. And for a long time, the world told the wrong story about who they were. The desert had kept them.

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