A relief of the Beauty of Loulan, a 3,800-year-old mummy found in the ruins, adorns the exterior of the Loulan Museum in Ruoqiang county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

The most famous of them, the Beauty of Loulan, was unearthed in 1980 by Chinese archaeologists working with a crew on a film about the Silk Road near Lop Nur, a dried salt lake 120 miles from ...

The Loulan Beauty and other cultural relics have already been to Japan, the US, Germany and other countries.

Loulan, a town on the Silk Road connecting China to Europe, was abandoned in the sixth century and slowly erased from the face of the Earth by centuries of blowing sand.

In order to better present the hard-to-access Loulan to the public, the Loulan Museum, the only Loulan-themed museum in the world, was built in Ruoqiang County and officially opened in 2011. Greeting ...

In 1980, archaeologists unearthed the perfectly preserved body of a woman, dubbed the "Loulan Beauty", who died more than 3,800 years ago, from an ancient tomb in Loulan area.

Greeting visitors at the entrance to the ancient Loulan-style structure is a relief of the Beauty of Loulan, a 3,800-year-old mummy that was found in 1980.