Archaeologists
find Ming Dynasty mummy in China
Archaeologists have discovered a
well-preserved, 700-year-old, body of a woman inside a stone coffin in
China The coffin was found on a building site
in Taizhou, in eastern China 's Jiangsu Province . Archaeologists (above)
carefully lever the lid off with crowbars
The coffin was one of the
three discovered in a tomb two metres underground on a construction site in the
city Researchers from the Taizhou Museum
carefully opened the coffins. In two they found skeletons, Ming Dynasty clothes
and funerary objects. However, in the third they found the well preserved body
of a woman (above) The 5-foot-long corpse was tightly
wrapped in cerecloth (heavy wax-treated linen cloth used for burying the dead),
quilt and clothes Archaeologists remove the body from the
stone coffin The corpse has complete skin and clearly
recognizable facial features, hair and even eyelashes The Mummy. Archaeologists carefully unwrap some of
the cloth from around the corpse
During their investigations
members of the Taizhou museum team found a number of funerary objects, including
a gem ring, a silver hairpin and more than 20 pieces of cotton clothing from the
time of the Ming. The Gem
Ring .
The Shoe.
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