A fascinating study of the mummies, buried around 4,000 years ago in the Täklimakan desert of western China
J. P. Mallory is a world expert on the interconnection of archaeology and linguistics and is the author of the standard work In Search of the Indo-Europeans and The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European. He has published numerous other works, including the hugely acclaimed The Origins of the Irish. He is Emeritus Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Queen's University Belfast and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
'A gripping tale, told with verve' - Times Higher Education
Supplement
'Excellent and informative … This book is essential reading for
anyone interested in archaeology and ancient history' - Journal of
Anthropological Research
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