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Ming Dynasty mummy - Lady Cop - 03-04-2011 amazing discovery~~ from the Daily Mail The 700-year-old mummy was found in the city of Taizhou, in Jiangsu Province, by construction workers - and her eyebrows were still intact. These incredible pictures show a 700-year-old mummy, which was discovered by chance - by road workers - in excellent condition in eastern China. The corpse of the high-ranking woman believed to be from the Ming Dynasty - the ruling power in China between 1368 and 1644 - was stumbled across by a team who were looking to expand a street. And the mummy, which was found in the city of Taizhou, in the Jiangsu Province, along with two other wooden tombs, offers a fascinating insight into life as it was back then. Discovered two metres below the road surface, the woman's features - from her head to her shoes - have retained their original condition, and have hardly deteriorated. When the discovery was made by the road workers, late last month, Chinese archaeologists, from the nearby Museum of Taizhou, were called into excavate the area, the state agency Xinhua News reported. They were surprised by the remarkably good condition of the woman's skin, hair, eyelashes and face. It was as though she had only recently died. The woman, wearing Ming Dynasty dress, is thought to have been at a high-ranking level. Bejewelled: The right hand of the 700-year-old mummy shows her preserved skin, and a ring adorns her finger MING DYNASTY FACTS Forbidden City The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 It was 'one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history' according to venerated tome A history of East Asian civilization Ming rule saw the construction of a vast navy and a standing army of one million troops There were enormous construction projects, including the restoration of the Grand Canal and the Great Wall and the establishment of the Forbidden City in Beijing (pictured) during the first quarter of the 15th century Estimates for the late-Ming population vary from 160 to 200 million Her body, which measures 1.5 metres high, was found at the construction site immersed in a brown liquid inside the coffin. And the coffin was opened earlier this week, on March 1, much to the excitement of the local city - and further afield. And the right hand of the 700-year-old mummy showed her preserved skin, and a ring. The mummy was wearing traditional Ming dynasty costume, and also in the coffin were bones, ceramics, ancient writings and other relics. This is the latest discovery after a lull of three years in the area. Indeed, between 1979 and 2008 five mummies were found, all in very good condition. Those findings raising the interest in learning the techniques of preservation funeral of this dynasty and customs in time to bury the dead. Director of the Museum of Taizhou, Wang Weiyin, told Xinhua that the mummy's clothes are made mostly of silk, with a little cotton. He said usually silk and cotton are very hard to preserve and excavations found that this mummifying technology was used only at very high-profile funerals. The first finding of the Ming Dynasty in Taizhou dates from May 1979 and led the opening of the museum. At that time the bodies were also found intact, but due to lack of experience of archaeologists only clothing, belts and clamps could be preserved. The Ming Dynasty, who built the Forbidden City and restored the Great Wall, was the last in China and marked an era of economic growth and cultural splendour which produced the first commercial contacts with the West. click to enlarge RE: Ming Dynasty mummy - Maggot - 03-04-2011 I try and wrap my mind around 700 yrs and it does not seem like a very long time for some reason. But it does go to show just how easy it is to miss things that are in the ground and waiting to be found, just below the surface laying there, waiting and resting. RE: Ming Dynasty mummy - Lady Cop - 03-04-2011 well in the march of history, it's NOT a long time. RE: Ming Dynasty mummy - Lady Cop - 06-16-2011 i'd really like to see this exhibit. they have one mummy of a child over 6500 years old, twice as old as Tut. The wraps are coming off a blockbuster exhibit this weekend at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. A haunting new exhibit entitled 'Mummies of the World' is set to open this Saturday. It will be the largest travelling exhibition ever assembled of mummies. The exhibit will feature 45 mummies of humans and animals, ranging from 250 years old to nearly 6,500 years old. RE: Ming Dynasty mummy - Lady Cop - 07-26-2012 quite a while back i had a thread about this Inca child-sacrifice mummy. can't locate it now. The place of sacrifice: The burial site of the 3 children on top of Llullaillaco Volcano. A 500-year-old frozen Incan mummy known as 'The Maiden' was suffering from a bacterial infection when she died - and being able to 'diagnose' the disease could lead to new insights into diseases of the past. The discovery could help defend against new illnesses - or the re-emergence of diseases of the past. The mummy was suffering from an illness similar to tuberculosis when she was sacrificed on the Argentinian volcano Llullaillaco, 22,100 feet above sea level. The find - using a new technique of swabbing the lips and comparing the swabs with those of current patients - is the first time a disease has been 'diagnosed' in such an ancient body. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2179217/Incan-mummy-frozen-human-sacrifice-infection-lungs--offering-new-insight-diseases-past.html#ixzz21kgCSA23 RE: Ming Dynasty mummy - Maggot - 07-26-2012 That story was in national geographic last year. i had a hard time taking my eyes off the girls hair.