About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

Analysis of a burial from approximately 2,200 years ago in the Shengjindian Cemetery, Turpan, China, revealed red pigment on ...

An archaeological discovery in the Turpan Basin of northwest China has revealed the remains of a woman more than 2,000 years ...

The Turpan Depression, 180 kilometers southeast of Urumqi in the east part of Xinjiang, is one of the few places in the world that are below sea level. The depression is a long, narrow stretch of ...

In the station's parking lot I'd agreed on a fee of 80 RMB ($10.50) to share a taxi with three young Uighur men on the 60-kilometer (37-miles) journey south to the oasis town of Turpan ...

Tourists view murals in the Ya'er Lake Grottoes in the city of Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, ...

The pagoda is situated in Asitana Village in Turpan, which is also called Sanbao Village. There was a big Buddhist temple in the village from the sixth to the seventh century, but the temple was ...

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