These mummies were unearthed in the Xiaohe cemetery ... That is, until Qiaomei Fu, a scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and her team cracked the code. Using advanced DNA analysis ...

In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert. They had long reddish-blond hair, European features and didn't appear to be the ancestors ...

“Regular cheese is soft. This is not. It has now become really dry, dense and hard dust,” said Fu Qiaomei, a paleogeneticist ...

Not to put too fine a point on it, a mummy is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin ...

Daredevil explorers Rick and Evelyn O'Connell are called into action when their son accidentally resurrects the evil Chinese ...