Fascinating story, yes. I remember the Tarim Basin mummies from the last time they impinged on the public consciousness, roundabouts ten or fifteen years ago. (I remember once having the strangest feeling that some of them in the photographs looked familiar, whatever that might mean.)

The boat-shaped coffins and the sexual symbolism in this particular cemetery are an interesting wrinkle. I might have to see if I can finagle access to some of the current archaeological journals, to see what's being said about them.