The Beauty of Loulan is the preserved ᴅᴇᴀᴅ body of a woman who lived about 4000 years ago, during the Bronze Age.
She was found on April 1, 1980 near the Silk Road in the Xinjiang region of China. She is one of the Tarim mummies, named after where they were found, the Tarim Basin. Unlike Egyptian mummies, which were preserved on purpose, the Loulan Beauty was preserved almost by accident. She was buried near a salt lake in the desert, where the arid and dry conditions preserved even the finer details of her face, such as her eyelashes.
By DNA tests they found she was at least part European, but her people might have lived in Siberia before migrating to Xinjiang. The woman is estimated to have been between 40 and 48 years old at the time of her death. The body is 152–155 cm in stature.
