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KHOTAN CULTURAL MUSEUM Latitude and Longitude:

37°06′45″N 79°54′24″E / 37.1125°N 79.9067°E / 37.1125; 79.9067
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Hotan Cultural Museum
Established1995
Location Hotan, Xinjiang, China
Coordinates 37°06′45″N 79°54′24″E / 37.1125°N 79.9067°E / 37.1125; 79.9067
Type Museum
Local "mutton fat" nephrite jade displayed in Hotan Cultural Museum lobby.

Hotan Cultural Museum or Hetian Cultural Museum ( Chinese: 和田地區博物館) is a museum in Hotan, Xinjiang, China. [1] Founded in 1995, it has a range of silk fragments, wooden utensils and jewelry, and mummified corpses of a 10-year-old girl and a 35-year-old man with Eurasian faces, believed to be over 1,500 years old. [2]

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References

  1. ^ "Hotan Museum". Visit Our China. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  2. ^ China. Eye Witness Travel Guides. p. 515.