ON CENTRAL ASIAN TRACKS - PHOTOS

On Central Asian Tracks 66 - Head of dead man, found in grave on top of mesa, Lop desert - Head had been covered by canvas shroud; its edge tied into small bag holding Ephedra twigs. - Stein found the graves on a mesa north-east of Lou-lan on the route the Chinese used for caravans between Lou-lan and Tun-huang. But the corpse was not Chinese nor Central Asian, but European. He left the remains in place, many years later many have been moved to a museum in Urumchi