An ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty was accidentally destroyed by diggers, but the body placed in the coffin kept its skin and hair intact, which surprised everyone who had seen the body. Using today's computer technology, we can reconstruct her former appearance-a "good family" appearance more than 21 years ago. But what puzzles experts most is that there is nothing special about the coffin and the burial place. Why can a female corpse not rot for more than 2,1 years? What is even more strange is that the woman corpse is not a mummy, and the body tissue is still filled with water. Experts from Nanjing Medical University dissected the female corpse, and found that the female corpse of the Han Dynasty, which was over 2,1 years old, was 1.54 meters tall and weighed about 34.3 kilograms, with clear hair roots on her head and long eyelashes. In addition, most of the skin of the corpse is well preserved and elastic. After the body was cut open, all the internal organs were well preserved. What surprised the experts most was that after the head shell of the body discovered was sawed open, a complete brain could be taken out.

1. The Legend of Female Corpse in the Millennium

This is the female corpse unearthed in Mawangdui in 1973, which is very rare in the world archaeological history and has great research value. Compared with other cultural relics, well-preserved corpses are especially precious because they are few and far between.

Mawangdui female corpse can also help us understand the ancient funeral culture. In the concept of the ancients, the corpse is the place where the soul resides. The immortal corpse makes the soul rely on it and does not dissipate with the wind. In ancient times, there were many stories about "rebirthing", which reflected this concept.

The body was found in an inner coffin decorated with brocade. When unearthed, the whole corpse was almost the same as that of a person who had just died, with intact appearance, soft and elastic body, fine and greasy skin, some joints that could be rotated, and even the lines on hands and feet could be clearly seen. The woman's face is Fiona Fang-shaped, and her head is decorated with various lacquered flowers and trees. Her hair is sparse and connected with a wig, which is made into a bun, and her hair is inserted into it. According to modern aesthetic standards, the body should be a standard beauty. Just because of a long time, it caused exophthalmos and tongue vomiting. There is a colorless liquid 2 cm deep in the coffin, which smells strange. The skin of the female corpse is brownish yellow. The face is covered with two layers of silk fabric. Embroidered sachets are held in both hands, filled with herbs, and feet are covered with green silk shoes. Inside the body, there are 18 layers of fine linen fabric, and 9 ribbons are tied horizontally on the outside, and then the printed yellow sand brocade robe and the "longevity rust" crimson silk brocade robe are covered.

After the discovery of this 21-year-old body discovered, it received extensive attention at home and abroad, which not only caused a sensation in the archaeological field, but also was regarded as a great miracle in the history of medicine.

Chinese medical personnel dissected the ancient corpse, and the results showed that this corpse not only preserved the complete appearance, but also the internal organs, the blood vessels in the limbs were clear, and the fibrous structures of hard bone tissue and cartilage tissue were well preserved. All these are enough to show that the quality of this 21-year-old body discovered is very high.

At present, the body discovered in China is mainly the mummy in Xinjiang, because the weather is dry and the temperature is high, and the corpse is preserved due to natural weathering, such as the world-famous female corpse known as "Loulan Beauty", but it is not artificially preserved. It is rarely found in the eastern region and the preservation quality is poor. Therefore, the ancient corpse of Mawangdui Han Tomb can be said to have created a great miracle in the world's corpse preservation record.

are there really immortal people in the world? Experts certainly don't believe in miracles. There must be some way to keep this body so fresh. As a result, people focused on the liquid in the coffin. For a time, all kinds of statements about the mysterious potion became hot topics in the streets and lanes, and even they were alarmingly portrayed as unsolved cases in the world. Some people even paid a lot of money to buy this potion that could make the body immortal.

Through scientific analysis, it is found that the mysterious potion rumored by the outside world is actually not an antiseptic potion, but the water in the soil seeps into the tomb and condenses and accumulates in thousands of years. It has only a very weak bacteriostatic effect, but it is not the main reason for the preservation of the corpse.

alchemy prevailed in the Han dynasty. At that time, the most authoritative statement about preserving corpses was that "jade can keep corpses cold", which means that jade can protect the constant low temperature and prevent corpses from rotting. Therefore, when the tomb of Liu Sheng, the king of Hanzhong Mountain Jing, was excavated in the whole city of Hebei Province, it was found that both of them were dressed in splendid clothes like new gold and jade, but the bodies had already turned into skeletons, which proved that this kind of effort against nature was just a superstition and had no scientific basis.

why are the bodies well preserved? This has to start with the way of burial. The pits of Mawangdui's three tombs are all rectangular vertical holes with a pyramid-shaped mound on the north side, and pit 1 is the largest and deepest. The bottom of Tomb No.3 and around the coffin chamber are filled with charcoal and white paste mud, and then filled with layers of soil to consolidate and build tall mounds on it. The charcoal filled in the No.1 pit is very thick, and the white plaster mud distributed outside the charcoal layer is 1-1.3 meters thick, with strong viscosity and extremely poor permeability. This thick and even layer of white plaster mud is tightly sealed, which makes the buried chamber form a moist, constant temperature, anoxic and sterile environment, and makes the coffin, corpse and funerary objects well preserved. The other two tombs, especially tomb No.2, are poorly preserved because of the thin accumulation, uneven distribution and poor sealing degree of white plaster mud.

In the initial stage after the corpse entered the coffin, there was a process of bacterial reproduction and fermentation in the intestine, but under certain conditions, the corruption could not continue because the coffin was well sealed, so there was not much air. The oxygen in the coffin was exhausted during the initial corruption of the corpse, and various organic substances in the coffin formed combustible biogas under the action of anaerobic methane. Biogas keeps accumulating, and the pressure in the coffin increases, which enhances the ability to resist external water seepage. Therefore, the water originally seeped in from the outside of the coffin is basically preserved in the coffin, and after these water seeped into the coffin through soil, white paste and mud, it formed an antiseptic substance with a small amount of mercury sulfide, and the body was soaked in this liquid for a long time, keeping fresh and moist. Of course, the efforts of the ancients still played a certain role. Although the level of science and technology was backward at that time, such efforts inadvertently left an extremely rare and intact female corpse for future generations, showing the wisdom of the ancient people.

Now the unearthed female corpse has been sealed in plexiglass coffin, stored in the basement, equipped with air-conditioning facilities to keep the temperature constant, and preserved with medicinal liquid. Due to the long-term immersion of the corpse in antiseptic medicine, the original chestnut color of the female corpse gradually disappeared, which was closer to the color of the fresh corpse.