Citations:Tarim Basin

English citations of Tarim Basin

Map including part of the TʻA-LI-MU PʻEN-TI (TARIM BASIN) (DMA, 1974)

• 1975 May 1, James H. Madole, “Forum”, in Green Egg‎^[1], volume VIII, number 70, San Diego, CA: Council of Earth Religions, Church of All Worlds, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50:

  Since Madame Blavatsky died over 80 years ago we can check many of the claims made in these ancient documents. For example, "THE SECRET DOCTRINE" in its "Proem" makes mention of the buried cities of a lost civilization in the Tarim Basin ("THE SECRET DOCTRINE" was published in 1888, two years before H.P.B.'s death) BUT THESE CITIES WERE ONLY EXCAVATED BY RUSSIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN 1917 PROVING CONCLUSIVELY WHAT WAS TAUGHT TO HER IN TIBET! These people of the Tarim Basin spoke TOCHARIAN, a now extinct Aryan language, as stated by Prof. V. Gordon Childe in his book, "THE ARYANS," published in 1927. Can you call this knowledge of an undiscovered civilization fraudulent?

• 1996 May 7, John Noble Wilford, “Mummies, Textiles Offer Evidence Of Europeans in Far East”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-08-07, SCIENCE‎^[3]:

  More surprises were in store. In the last two decades, Chinese archeologists digging in the same region, the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang Province, have uncovered more than 100 naturally mummified corpses of people who lived there 4,000 to 2,400 years ago.

• 1999, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, The Mummies of Ürümchi‎^[4], W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43:

  At Cherchen, the only town of any size in the entire southeastern quadrant of the Tarim Basin (itself an oval 400 by 800 miles in diameter, mostly desert), they learned that locals had discovered an extensive antique cemetery on a plateau above the nearby hamlet of Zaghunluq.

• 2011 March 1, “Following controversy, mummies at Penn Museum remain objects of mystery”, in The Washington Post‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-23, Style‎^[6]:

  “If you could bring the whole paraphernalia of modern science, like DNA, to bear on this, you would blow open so many old chestnuts,” Hodges says. He also says that, while in the 1990s the Chinese found the material discovered in the Tarim Basin, especially that which testified to a far greater presence in the region, “a little difficult to take,” he believes they will come along.

• 2019 October 4, Aizhu in Singapore Chen, Sun Yilei in Shanghai, “PetroChina unit strikes high oil, gas flows in deep Tarim well”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 05 October 2019, Commodities‎^[8]:

  The Tarim basin currently has an annual production capacity of over 2 million tonnes of condensate and 10 bcm of natural gas.