wet mummy of china

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                         China represents one of the world's oldest civilization. When ever we talk about mummies we can only visualize Egyptian mummies....their preservation procedures...the after life theory.....but discoveries have proved that Asia or more specifically China is more successful in preservation of dead bodies with flesh and internal organs intact.
                         Here I wll be talking about most mysterious and astonishing discovery of China in 1971.
                                 
                                 

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                         Construction work was going on in a hill named as Mawangdui, in changsha, Human, eastern China. They workers who were digging realized that they might have found something significant , thus they called the archaeologists of the Taizhou Museum to excavate the area . They found a tomb, inside it there was a three layered pine box coffin. On opening the main coffin, archaeologists were astonished to found a female body wrapped around with 20 layers of silk or linen, submerged into 21 gallon brown coloured liquid. Archaeologists didnot know whether the brown coloured liquid was used intentionally in order to preserve or accumulation of groundwater. Later chemical analysis revealed that the composition of the liquid is slightly acidic and contains traces of magnesium in it . The tomb was made air tight as well as water tight by sealing it with an additional 3 feet of layers of charcoal and clay. The woman was believed to have lived during the Ming dynasty and identified as Xin Zhui also known as Lady Dai. She was the wife of a powerful Lord or official named Li Chang or the Marcus of Die.

                               

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                            In 1972 , Chinese pathologist Paula Long Chung conducted the autopsy of the body. The body was so well preserved that it can be dissected like any other modern corpses. The lady was fully dressed with traditional dress of Ming dynasty along with jewellery and a green coloured ring in finger. She was about 1.5 m long . Her skin was still soft and light yellow in colour, flesh was also soft and elastic, her hands and limbs can be bend , hair was also present as it is ......hairs of head was held in a place with the help of a silver hair pin. Her brain was half the present size but was fully intact, all her internal organs still remained in place and red blood ( A type) was present in her vains. Blood clot in her vains revealed her cause of death was heart attack. Pathologist even found 138 undigested melon seeds in her stomach and intestine which was probably eaten a hour before she died. A coin was placed in her chest, which according to Timothy Brooke (historian) was placed on the body as a kind of charm.

                            Her tomb consists of more than 1000 artefacts, of which 2/3 consists of food and drink, sealed bamboo baskets, writing relics in ancient script, 100 silk garments, 182 pieces of Lacquer ware...largest number ever found, and 162 carved wooden figurines representing servants in her tomb.

                           Presently her body is kept in Hunan Provincial Museum. Museum also displays a life sized reconstruction of her.

                             

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                            The whole discovery and its preservation still remains a mystery.