Why do you think political controversy over the origins of the Beauty of Xiaohe and other mummies found in the Tarim Basin has arisen in China in recent years?

The Tarim mummies found in the Tarim Basin, China.

Explanation:

Most of the Tarim mummies found on the eastern end of the Tarim Basin. The origin of the Beauty of Xiaohe and other mummies have caused political controversy in China. A group of ethnic (Uyghur) have taken advantage of these findings and provoke by declaring themselves as the descendants of these early people to divide China. The Beauty of Loulan has become a symbol of the Uyghur separatist campaign to isolate themselves from the majority of China population. According to historians, the Uyghurs not linked to the mummies.

because the earth is a round globe. but that is just what they tell us it is flat and those dudes actually where lying they sailed east.