Top Attraction along Your Silk Road Tour "#cas0505"

Locted in Urumqi Xibei Road, the Xinjiang Regional Museum is a large integrated museum and centre for Visit china and the collection and study of cultural relics in Xinjiang. The museum architecture built in 1953 with featured Uighur ethnic internal decor style and has an exhibition hall covering an area of about 7,800 square meters (approx. 9,328 square yards).

Arguably, the highlight of the historical relics exhibit of Silk Road travel are the displays of the mummified remains of the so-called Tarim Mummies of the Taklamakan Desert, the most famous example of which is the "Beauty of Loulan", a female with distinctly Caucasoid features who belongs to the ethnic group that apparently were the first late Stone Age (Neolithic Age). This mummy is well-preserved. The museum's historical relics display includes the fossil of a human head that dates roughly from this same period), a fact that is all the more remarkable given that these late Stone Age people were not only not of "local" origin, i.e., not of Chinese or Turkic origin, but were Caucasians of European origin.

Xinjiang Regional Museum's many regional and national treasures are a testimony to the province's broad cultural diversity, to its ancient prehistory and to its subsequent glorious history as a thriving and indispensable part of China's ancient Silk Road culture. Since many of the ancient Silk Road cities are but ruins today, with most of their interesting artifacts removed for protection (for posterity), the only way to get a full picture of what these ancient cities were like during their heyday is to pay a visit to Xinjiang Regional Museum in Urumqi. Contact China vacation Insiders.