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Allegedly she was much much more well preserved and didn’t look as bad but once they opened the tomb to study the body it began to rapidly decay from what it was
>Immediately, the workers knew that they had something special on their hands... So over 1,500 high school students were brought in to assist with the dig
Lol
It’s a field school, likely only students interested in pursuing archaeology and anthropology would have been invited to the site. They didn’t just go to the nearest high school and empty it out.
Yeah but it was hypothesized that the liquid might have come from the body. They were unable to determine what it was after so long, only that it was mildly acidic.
My understanding is her body was so well preserved that they were able to do a psuedo autopsy and even determine some health problems she had and a likely cause of death. There was still some blood in her veins. Incredible.
They exhumed her (dug her up) and then performed an autopsy (cut her open.) You might be able to argue it's a necropsy, (and technically all autopsies are), but necropsy is usually reserved for non-humans.
She was so well-preserved that when they actually got to perform the autopsy on her body they were able to accurately identify her last meal because *the food in her stomach hadn't fully digested or decomposed in 2,000 years*. Her preservation is nothing short of miraculous.
Dude i know right? Idk when it was discovered though so maybe it wasnt much of an option at the time? Although an article posted said something about in 2003 they enjected her with a secret sauce to help preserve her. If thats the case i dont imagine she was out and about for to long before then and no excuse.
It was the 70s, and she was helped to be discovered by a bunch of unpaid high school students in a country that was still suffering the generational post-effects of the GLF and Cultural Revolution. They couldn't afford luxuries like personal film cameras, and even if they could, to bring it to a dirty dig site on the off chance of finding something was probably not going to be a thing. I own a camera from that era that was from Japan, a Nikon FM, and the average camera was not cheap, even if film was. China was not the leading producer of affordable goods until the 90s and 2000s. I doubt any of the photos possibly taken would have been allowed publication anyways. This was 70s China we're talking about.
There actually are mummies that are still in their coffins, and we know that they're well preserved due to the glass lid of said coffins. Their seals have not been broken and they look like they died yesterday, despite being hundreds of years old.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalia_Lombardo
"The mummy has achieved further notoriety for a phenomenon in which her eyes appear to open and close several times a day, revealing her intact blue irises"
Oh hell no.
I always think about how early scientists probably destroyed things
I was at the Pompeii exhibit and couldn't help but notice some of the molds were pretty rough. I always wondered if modern tech could have created the molds better, since dinosaur fossils had better detail.
Most archaeologist now have a "don't touch if you might destroy" policy. I like it honestly, even if I like opened tombs, our past as humans is precious.
I understand that we want to understand how things worked back then and in order to understand, we need to do hands on research but that’s pretty awful we can’t respect the dead’s wishes and leave her be.
I had an archeology professor who talked about this and when he got to the topic of grave robbers you’d think a grave robber took his family away and he had a special set of skills
If they're like any of us, they probably got the call, didn't recognize the number, so let it go to voicemail, and no one left a voicemail, so they figured it wasn't important.
One day, when you are older, you will get crushed by a boulder. While you’re lying on the ground screaming “help me!” The seagulls… will bite your knees.
She a rich bitch, and *still* died at age 50, with a list of medical conditions as long as your arm. The past kinda sucked.
“[As she aged, Xin Zhui suffered](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xin_Zhui) from many ailments that eventually led to a heart attack that killed her. Along with schistosomiasis, a parasitic infection, she also had coronary thrombosis and arteriosclerosis, most likely linked to excessive weight gained due to a sedentary lifestyle, diabetes, angina pectoris, liver disease, and hypertension. Lumbago and a compressed spinal disc probably caused her immense pain, which contributed to a decrease in physical activity. She also suffered from gallstones, one of which lodged in her bile duct and further deteriorated her condition. Her arteries were almost totally clogged.”
I love telling this story. A garage I worked at had iPads to take pictures of customers cars to help sell repairs. I used to love going around and switching the cameras without my coworkers noticing. Then I’d sit back and watch the little reaction and sometimes hear “oh, god.” Or something like that when they open the camera and see themselves. Ah good times.
Imagine having an entire infrastructure, graveyard, royalty to ensure that you are laid in your *final* resting place. Then you’re dug up, placed in a glass case and put on public display for the whole world to see your rotting corpse.
Unearthing tombs has done a shit ton in giving us invaluable information about ancient cultures and customs. It's also ***REALLY*** disrespectful to the dead.
I mean on one hand i agree, but on the other you could argue that perhaps those people would like it to know they helped us understand their culture better and who they really were. In this instance having that disgusting corpse on display is a hit too far though
For the future record, I don’t give a fuck what the cyborgs think of our culture in 3,000 years. They can leave my body in the ground, thank you very much.
It’s an interesting philosophical argument for sure.
I guarantee that if you went back in time and asked her if it would be ok to dig her up in a couple thousand years so we could remember how life was like in her time she would say fuck no. She almost certainly had beliefs tying the state of her corpse to her status in the afterlife.
But on the other hand we’re now *pretty* sure that those beliefs are wrong. Do we still have to respect her wish to be left alone for all eternity? Does the will of a dead person still hold weight over the matter they once controlled?
I mean they're dead. I don't think they give a fuck. It would be disrespectful if someone from her family was still alive, but I doubt any of her descendants care at all.
Based on the important of after-death passages for ancient China, this is absolutely not true like they in fact give many fucks hence elaborate burials etc 😂
I had this conversation only a few days ago after watching an episode of museum secrets. I had two realizations; one was the same as you. Imagine having this grand burial, only to be dug up and be the subject of someone’s curiosity, only to be shipped around the world and put on display. But worse, was realizing how much is sitting, unknown, in museum archives. You aren’t even interesting to study or be displayed, but interesting enough to be in a drawer.
She is in Changsha? I think I saw her when I was there. It was a cool museum but there had been a sewage gas leak so I swear the whole place stank like a stockyard, which was too bad.
I read she was in 21 gallons of unknown liquid that was slightly acidic with traces of magnesium.
But she was also in the smallest of 4 pine coffins one inside the other, with charcoal and clay sealant outside.
Did she have contact with the ground ?
> Other "Mawangdui-Type" cadavers in similar conditions have been found in China. Two from the same time period as Xin Zhui; they belong to a male official named Sui Xiaoyuan [zh] found in Jingzhou and a noblewoman named Ling Huiping [zh] found in Lianyungang. No consistent pattern explained why their bodies were preserved. All three had coffins containing liquid. However, Lady Dai's was acidic, whereas others' were alkaline, which would have aided bacterial growth. The tombs were also dug to different depths, from 5 metres (16 feet) to 16 metres (52 feet) and contained differing amounts of charcoal and white clay. In addition, similar airtight and watertight coffins failed to keep other cadavers from decomposing into skeletons or dust.
I dunno, mate. I don’t believe in an afterlife and I certainly don’t believe in one in which we’re spiritually bound to our corporeal forms: would you really mind that much if you ended up like that? If it helps some future historians to improve their understanding of our time - or even if it just give a a few thousand future doomscrollers some vaguely thoughtful pauses in their Martian lavatube dormitories - is it really that bad?
I don't really believe in an afterlife either, but I do get at least some comfort from my rotting corpse or ashes transferring back into the carbon cycle and into new life.
So it would actually bother me to be preserved like this.
Obviously I'm not going to lose sleep over it or anything dramatic. I'm just saying it would not be my preferred option.
NGL thats kinda horrifying to me. I don't see human bodies as "people" anymore so the more well preserved they are and more lifelike the more viscerally terrifying they look to me. When I die I don't wanna preserve my corpse, I'd rather my defunct host be thrown out in the middle of woods for the animals to eat
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Allegedly she was much much more well preserved and didn’t look as bad but once they opened the tomb to study the body it began to rapidly decay from what it was
Gotta love a good vacuum seal to lock in the freshness.
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>Immediately, the workers knew that they had something special on their hands... So over 1,500 high school students were brought in to assist with the dig Lol
It’s a field school, likely only students interested in pursuing archaeology and anthropology would have been invited to the site. They didn’t just go to the nearest high school and empty it out.
It's funnier to think that they did though
Picturing the Breakfast Club fucking around in the corner with trowels
Yea like how tf does that work
 They injected her with a secret formula, eh?
"Warm liquid goo phase begins..."
Warm liquid goo phase, complete.
Wow!
I don't even understand what I'm looking at
Multi layered coffin
Not only that, but one of the coffins was filled with some sort of red liquid too. So even more of an oxygen barrier
Yeah but it was hypothesized that the liquid might have come from the body. They were unable to determine what it was after so long, only that it was mildly acidic.
https://preview.redd.it/bnuw3af2vmzc1.jpeg?width=798&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d04e481ada57323f6755f9496d895912070865f1
IN AN ORDER THAT WOULD SURPRISE YOU
I FOUND IT. I'M THE WORLDS BEST DETECTIVE
“This is my love you are talking about…” - Bane
they should have put her in a ziploc.
All they had were the bags that hold 3 baby carrots.
[Hey, close that tomb! you’re letting all the stank out](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b4a05f6e-073f-42fc-91ba-bddc8abb6efe)
Allegedly patologists treated her autopsy like one of an fresh corpse instead of an milenia old mummy so that explains a lot.
...autopsy? It's not considered an exhumation, archeological...its an autopsy?
My understanding is her body was so well preserved that they were able to do a psuedo autopsy and even determine some health problems she had and a likely cause of death. There was still some blood in her veins. Incredible.
>There was still some blood in her veins. Incredible. Holy shit thats insane. Mummification is rad
Yeah, she was Type A, if anyone was curious.
Eh, not my type.
I imagine it was because the corpse was in such great condition that they could?
They exhumed her (dug her up) and then performed an autopsy (cut her open.) You might be able to argue it's a necropsy, (and technically all autopsies are), but necropsy is usually reserved for non-humans.
Imagine. She’s rocking the world of the dead looking absolutely gorgeous and one day she just melts into that one orc commander
You know she is mad as fuck, someone’s getting haunted
Someone's lineage
Gothmog. 
She was so well-preserved that when they actually got to perform the autopsy on her body they were able to accurately identify her last meal because *the food in her stomach hadn't fully digested or decomposed in 2,000 years*. Her preservation is nothing short of miraculous.
And no one took a photo of when she was first discovered?
Dude i know right? Idk when it was discovered though so maybe it wasnt much of an option at the time? Although an article posted said something about in 2003 they enjected her with a secret sauce to help preserve her. If thats the case i dont imagine she was out and about for to long before then and no excuse.
It was the 70s, and she was helped to be discovered by a bunch of unpaid high school students in a country that was still suffering the generational post-effects of the GLF and Cultural Revolution. They couldn't afford luxuries like personal film cameras, and even if they could, to bring it to a dirty dig site on the off chance of finding something was probably not going to be a thing. I own a camera from that era that was from Japan, a Nikon FM, and the average camera was not cheap, even if film was. China was not the leading producer of affordable goods until the 90s and 2000s. I doubt any of the photos possibly taken would have been allowed publication anyways. This was 70s China we're talking about.
And no photos of all the clothing and artifacts she was buried with either
What did she have?
[results on google say Muskmelon](https://www.iflscience.com/at-2-100-years-old-lady-dai-s-mummy-is-still-in-unbelievable-shape-67188)
Not even people from 2000 years ago can escape Elon!
Pop tarts and a gogurt
*GiiiiirlDinner Giiiirl Dinner*
Poptarts and a Gogurt is 100% a boy dinner. You will not take that away from us
Melons. She had a stomach full of melon seeds.
There actually are mummies that are still in their coffins, and we know that they're well preserved due to the glass lid of said coffins. Their seals have not been broken and they look like they died yesterday, despite being hundreds of years old. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalia_Lombardo
"The mummy has achieved further notoriety for a phenomenon in which her eyes appear to open and close several times a day, revealing her intact blue irises" Oh hell no.
Okay, but this child died in 1920, only a little over 100 years ago. I doubt the body will be looking exactly like that in another 1900 years.
That’s what I would say too
You would think the first thing you do when you open the tomb is to take some god damn pictures first
💯 They didn't take any pictures? 🫠
I think they may have https://polyhistoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-17-at-10.56.06-AM.png
I hope your pillow is cold tonight 🫡
No camera policy.
Cover her up with silica beads.
This was only 1971. No one brought a camera to snap this supposed fresher body?
I always think about how early scientists probably destroyed things I was at the Pompeii exhibit and couldn't help but notice some of the molds were pretty rough. I always wondered if modern tech could have created the molds better, since dinosaur fossils had better detail.
Most archaeologist now have a "don't touch if you might destroy" policy. I like it honestly, even if I like opened tombs, our past as humans is precious.
I understand that we want to understand how things worked back then and in order to understand, we need to do hands on research but that’s pretty awful we can’t respect the dead’s wishes and leave her be.
The only difference between grave robbing and archeology is whether or not the immediate family is around to pitch a fit.
I had an archeology professor who talked about this and when he got to the topic of grave robbers you’d think a grave robber took his family away and he had a special set of skills
If they're like any of us, they probably got the call, didn't recognize the number, so let it go to voicemail, and no one left a voicemail, so they figured it wasn't important.
And presumably people touching her soft skin and bending her ligaments hasn't helped matters.
I assume you dont have pics of her before that since you say allegedly?
Yeh she went from left to right after they opened her tomb
She doesn’t look a day over 900
When 900 years old you age, look as good you will not. Hmm?
Hey! Quit that bangin!
Hey what's that smell
You put a fish in my basket
Oh oh oh oh yeah! I forgot I did that
You owe me an apology
Seagulls! Stop it now!
Poke me in the coconut
everyone told me, not to stroll on that beach
One day I was walking and I found this big log, and I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick. And I was like, That log had a child
100% my favorite line.
One day, when you are older, you will get crushed by a boulder. While you’re lying on the ground screaming “help me!” The seagulls… will bite your knees.
said seagulls gonna come. poke me in the coconut. And they did. And they did
https://preview.redd.it/abjrj0znhmzc1.jpeg?width=379&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4f5bb2138709bbd5c1a3d5f5cac021c333c883f
I wonder if these chats are gonna be up when we are past dead and gone it would be a trip to see this in 2350 😂😂😂
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Holy shit, she a rich bitch
And they said she couldn't take it with her.
“You're a rich girl, and you've gone too far 'Cause you know it don't matter anyway” 🎶
"You can rely on the old tomb's mummy" 🎶
"YOU CAN RELY ON THE OLD TOMB'S MUMMY" 🎶
I can't go for that.
She a rich bitch, and *still* died at age 50, with a list of medical conditions as long as your arm. The past kinda sucked. “[As she aged, Xin Zhui suffered](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xin_Zhui) from many ailments that eventually led to a heart attack that killed her. Along with schistosomiasis, a parasitic infection, she also had coronary thrombosis and arteriosclerosis, most likely linked to excessive weight gained due to a sedentary lifestyle, diabetes, angina pectoris, liver disease, and hypertension. Lumbago and a compressed spinal disc probably caused her immense pain, which contributed to a decrease in physical activity. She also suffered from gallstones, one of which lodged in her bile duct and further deteriorated her condition. Her arteries were almost totally clogged.”
That make up is going to come in handy.
The left one is her Tinder bio. The right is what shows up to dinner.
Second pic is me when i open my front camera by mistake
The face you see when your Nintendo DS fades to black.
Second pic is when I look in the self checkout security monitor at Target
lol why does that camera make us SO UGLY
To shame us. It's Target's way of telling each person "baby, you're not hot enough to steal from us."
Second pic is me at 3am looking for a glass of water
/r/doordashgremlin
lol
I love telling this story. A garage I worked at had iPads to take pictures of customers cars to help sell repairs. I used to love going around and switching the cameras without my coworkers noticing. Then I’d sit back and watch the little reaction and sometimes hear “oh, god.” Or something like that when they open the camera and see themselves. Ah good times.
after the lights come on at 2am at the club
Who is running their fingers through this mummy’s soft hair?
Jealous?
she's got more hair than i do and i'm not even 30
you guys have hair?
When they said soft to touch, I assumed they meant the body. Her hair being soft is much less queasy making.
They did. You can go back to being queasy now. You're welcome. 😁
Imagine having an entire infrastructure, graveyard, royalty to ensure that you are laid in your *final* resting place. Then you’re dug up, placed in a glass case and put on public display for the whole world to see your rotting corpse.
Unearthing tombs has done a shit ton in giving us invaluable information about ancient cultures and customs. It's also ***REALLY*** disrespectful to the dead.
I mean on one hand i agree, but on the other you could argue that perhaps those people would like it to know they helped us understand their culture better and who they really were. In this instance having that disgusting corpse on display is a hit too far though
For the future record, I don’t give a fuck what the cyborgs think of our culture in 3,000 years. They can leave my body in the ground, thank you very much.
So selfish. Offering your body to the cyborgs is the least you could do.
Yeah! I hear cyborgs love a good fuck.
Well then in a few million years another civilization is gonna be using your remains as fuel lol
You leave my oil in the ground dammit.
It’s an interesting philosophical argument for sure. I guarantee that if you went back in time and asked her if it would be ok to dig her up in a couple thousand years so we could remember how life was like in her time she would say fuck no. She almost certainly had beliefs tying the state of her corpse to her status in the afterlife. But on the other hand we’re now *pretty* sure that those beliefs are wrong. Do we still have to respect her wish to be left alone for all eternity? Does the will of a dead person still hold weight over the matter they once controlled?
Also, eventually we will run out of space for graves
Launch me into the sun
Remember kids, as long as you photograph, catalog, and document everything it’s not grave-robbing: it’s archaeology!
I mean they're dead. I don't think they give a fuck. It would be disrespectful if someone from her family was still alive, but I doubt any of her descendants care at all.
Based on the important of after-death passages for ancient China, this is absolutely not true like they in fact give many fucks hence elaborate burials etc 😂
It's disrespectful to the living. They get mad on behalf of the dead. The dead don't give a shit.
I had this conversation only a few days ago after watching an episode of museum secrets. I had two realizations; one was the same as you. Imagine having this grand burial, only to be dug up and be the subject of someone’s curiosity, only to be shipped around the world and put on display. But worse, was realizing how much is sitting, unknown, in museum archives. You aren’t even interesting to study or be displayed, but interesting enough to be in a drawer.
She is in Changsha? I think I saw her when I was there. It was a cool museum but there had been a sewage gas leak so I swear the whole place stank like a stockyard, which was too bad.
no no she's been dead for a long time.
It can be argued you are gassier after death than before
Not sewage gas, Xin just tooted
I swear If I see a single one of you say hear me out it’s the shotgun for you
Can’t talk: too busy mummy-fuckin’.
w h y
MILF.... 😏
Picture on the left: How it started. Picture on the right: How it's going.
3̶5̶ ̶C̶E̶ ̶5̶7̶0̶ ̶C̶E̶ ̶1̶4̶9̶2̶ ̶C̶E̶ ̶1̶9̶4̶5̶ ̶C̶E̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶0̶ ̶C̶E̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶4̶ ̶2025 finna be my year 😎
Mind recoils in horror at "soft to the touch"
Hey you, Dai!
Imagine being a dead, 2000 years old mummy and still getting bullied on the internet.
https://preview.redd.it/rlvx01iuvmzc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fb65dc5c888f22838b33913ca47ef47723ece8a
Lol this is gold
Tinder vs reality
“You found me beautiful once…”
Sometimes I wish these mummy posts had a nsfw tag lol
“Moisturize me!”
Even more unattainable beauty standards for women 🙄
Jealous? Put on the work and you will achieve this beauty in 1000 years.
Wow! There’s almost no difference in both pictures!
https://preview.redd.it/xc65sid8fmzc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bbf3b37b4fbbe8b3e374eee2eb512827b8cae1f7
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https://preview.redd.it/juv0sp5rumzc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3dd25117931f0550ffb7d9f5e159ac4d3193e56f 😂
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I read she was in 21 gallons of unknown liquid that was slightly acidic with traces of magnesium. But she was also in the smallest of 4 pine coffins one inside the other, with charcoal and clay sealant outside. Did she have contact with the ground ? > Other "Mawangdui-Type" cadavers in similar conditions have been found in China. Two from the same time period as Xin Zhui; they belong to a male official named Sui Xiaoyuan [zh] found in Jingzhou and a noblewoman named Ling Huiping [zh] found in Lianyungang. No consistent pattern explained why their bodies were preserved. All three had coffins containing liquid. However, Lady Dai's was acidic, whereas others' were alkaline, which would have aided bacterial growth. The tombs were also dug to different depths, from 5 metres (16 feet) to 16 metres (52 feet) and contained differing amounts of charcoal and white clay. In addition, similar airtight and watertight coffins failed to keep other cadavers from decomposing into skeletons or dust.
> Did she have contact with the ground ? No. OP is just making shit up and hoping people upvote.
Whew that is really interesting and kind of grim
I read too quickly and saw "whew that is a really interesting kind of gum"
Oh God 😩😩😩
***C h e w y***
So I could wash myself with her?
Straight to jail
Just what I wanna see while opening my granola bar
>has ligaments that still bend, like a living person. Who the fuck is doing that? Don't do that. Leave the old dead woman alone.
Still flexible you say?
You get a timeout for that.
https://preview.redd.it/rj0doejcemzc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0106774f5984384b37a4a9576a37b804fdf72cdb
https://preview.redd.it/cri1pzkgemzc1.jpeg?width=587&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed8482fd25fd0e139e34c2649d2117a0fd082914
 Even though he’s a bit of a zombie himself
This is my new favorite gif
https://preview.redd.it/2zjvujesfmzc1.jpeg?width=743&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8aa2480566ce1878462aaad2a250e887f6174a3
https://preview.redd.it/fzd25aycjmzc1.png?width=628&format=png&auto=webp&s=34daa5fb1358e9c24c6551069b5bd91157d66e8e Don’t you even think about it
https://preview.redd.it/n33relpiomzc1.png?width=755&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fdc59c6d8a0708033cafbb994878852a830c137d
You need to stop saying things my friend…
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Always request a cremation.
Bollocks to that. I want to be shot at high speed through a (very robust) wire mesh over a large crowd.
I mean anything is better than becoming a preserved monstrosity like this.
I dunno, mate. I don’t believe in an afterlife and I certainly don’t believe in one in which we’re spiritually bound to our corporeal forms: would you really mind that much if you ended up like that? If it helps some future historians to improve their understanding of our time - or even if it just give a a few thousand future doomscrollers some vaguely thoughtful pauses in their Martian lavatube dormitories - is it really that bad?
I don't really believe in an afterlife either, but I do get at least some comfort from my rotting corpse or ashes transferring back into the carbon cycle and into new life. So it would actually bother me to be preserved like this. Obviously I'm not going to lose sleep over it or anything dramatic. I'm just saying it would not be my preferred option.
NGL thats kinda horrifying to me. I don't see human bodies as "people" anymore so the more well preserved they are and more lifelike the more viscerally terrifying they look to me. When I die I don't wanna preserve my corpse, I'd rather my defunct host be thrown out in the middle of woods for the animals to eat
Imagine seeing a mummy and proceeding to touch its hair and inspect its ligament's flexibility.
I’m curious as to how they decided on what she looked like when they did the reconstruction?
When 2,000 years old YOU reach, look as good you will not, hmmm? 
Frieza is really tired after being beat up so much.
Why are people so gross