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One of the most unusual examples of a wall covering discovered was the Sampul Tapestry wall covering (also called the Urumqi Warrier and the Cherchan Man)
Sampul is on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in western China just above Tibet. It is one of the few oases found in the Taklamakan Desert (others being Khotan and Niva)
It was in 1984 in the Tarim Basin along the old Silk Road, while excavating graves (dating back to 2-3 century BCE) near the village of Sampul that a pair of ornamental woolen trousers were discovered. These were cut from a tapestry wall covering that once hung in a royal home and surely one of the most unusual ways to use a wall covering.
The 4 mass graves contained 100 of bodies and each are thought to have been filled at the same time. They all seem to have met a violent death which as led the excavators to theorise that they were massacred after an attack on the village. Along with the trousers they found skirts, mirrors, combs and other tapestry wall covering fragments.
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