Yingpan man

{{Short description|Mummy excavated in Yingpan, China}}

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The Yingpan man ({{zh|s=营盘美男}}) is an ancient mummy which was excavated in the Yingpan cemetery located in the northeastern Tarim Basin. The mummy was 1.98m (6 feet 6 inches) tall, and dates to the 4th-5th centuries CE.{{cite book |last1=Cheang |first1=Sarah |last2=Greef |first2=Erica de |last3=Takagi |first3=Yoko |title=Rethinking Fashion Globalization |date=15 July 2021 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-350-18130-4 |page=101 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MostEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT101 |language=en}} The deceased was wearing luxurious clothes decorated with Hellenistic motifs.{{cite book |last1=Puigdevall |first1=Federico |title=The Secrets of Ancient Tombs: Tutankhamun's Tomb and Other Ancient Tombs |date=15 December 2017 |publisher=Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |isbn=978-1-5026-3263-0 |page=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oipmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA88 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Schoeser |first1=Mary |title=World Textiles |date=6 October 2022 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |isbn=978-0-500-77779-4 |page=127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=80aIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT127 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Mierse |first1=William E. |title=Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road |date=31 December 2022 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-5829-1 |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQuXEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 |language=en}}

The Yingpan man may have been a Sogdian or more probably an elite member of the Shanshan Kingdom nearby.{{cite book |last1=Cheang |first1=Sarah |last2=Greef |first2=Erica de |last3=Takagi |first3=Yoko |title=Rethinking Fashion Globalization |date=15 July 2021 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-350-18130-4 |page=101 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MostEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT101 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Tingting |last2=Fuller |first2=Benjamin T. |last3=Jiang |first3=Hongen |last4=Li |first4=Wenying |last5=Wei |first5=Dong |last6=Hu |first6=Yaowu |title=Revealing lost secrets about Yingpan Man and the Silk Road |journal=Scientific Reports |date=13 January 2022 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=669 |doi=10.1038/s41598-021-04383-5 |pmid=35027587 |pmc=8758759 |bibcode=2022NatSR..12..669W |issn=2045-2322}}

The mummy is located in the Xinjiang Museum.