[FunOnTheNet] Discovering Ming Dynasty Mummy in China

 

Discovering Ming Dynasty
Mummy in China

Dinesh Vora

Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Archaeologists have discovered a well-preserved, 700-year-old,
body of a woman inside a stone coffin in China.

Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, 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

Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
The coffin was one of the three discovered in a tomb two
metres underground on a construction site in the city.

 
Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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)

 
Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
The 5-foot-long corpse was tightly wrapped in cerecloth
(heavy wax-treated linen cloth used for burying the dead),
quilt and clothes.
 
Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Archaeologists remove the body from the stone coffin

Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
The corpse has complete skin and clearly recognizable
facial features, hair and even eyelashes

Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
The Mummy.

Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Archaeologists carefully unwrap some of the cloth from
around the corpse

 
Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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.

Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
The Gem Ring  

Extremely well preserved Ming Dynasty mummified female
 Ming Dynasty mummified female found, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China
The Shoe

Discovering Ming Dynasty
Mummy in China

Dinesh Vora


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