This weekend The New York Times published an article, "China Asks Penn to Remove All Artifacts From 'Silk Road' Exhibition," about Uighur Artifacts that were discovered and sent to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The museum held a short lived exhibit featuring clothing, textiles, personal items, golden treasures, and mummies that were excavated in desert burial sites of western China from over 3,500 years ago.
The Chinese government requested that all the artifacts be sent back and taken off display. The exhibit has been 'modified' and now pictures are being displayed instead of the physical artifacts. Now the exhibit features photographs, multimedia presentations, and a recreation of the excavation site.
The article says, "Mummies and other artifacts that have been found in the region in recent years there have been identified as Caucasoid, with long noses and light hair, discoveries that have caused controversy there. The discoveries have raised questions about who first settled that part of western China and for how long. Chinese authorities have faced an intermittent separatist movement of nationalist Uighurs." Hence, why the artifacts were requested to be sent back to China. The artifact brought up more of China's unknown past.
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