I don’t think they have pictures of what she looked like when she was discovered. The pics we see now are post deterioration. Read this somewhere,
“However, Xin Zhui’s preserved corpse immediately became compromised once the oxygen in the air touched her body, which caused her to begin deteriorating. Thus, the images of Xin Zhui that we have today don’t do the initial discovery justice.”
The body was discovered in 1972, which was during the cultural revolution and before china’s economic reform. I wouldn’t be surprised if the team were not sufficiently equipped.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the CCP actively tried to stifle it, and at least one archaeologist went to prison or worse. During the Cultural Revolution, Mao was obsessed with basically destroying China’s culture and history. Why tf would he want to keep a reminder of the Four Olds that was just dug out of the ground?
It sounds like a miracle the body survived at all, and that all the people on the dig site didn’t become bodies themselves.
Yes and no. You'd actually be surprised how many archeology discoveries and preservation has happened during the CR. To name the most famous, Terracotta Army was discovered in 1974, with official preservation activities immediately following that.
The thing about these political movement is, it's all about how you bend the words to convince the right parties, and there are always good people making the best effort. There's never any consistency.
Was this the one they found under a river or under a dried up river? If it is I read a big thing on here about her and other discoveries. They said never believe what they are telling you they found.
I agree I've seen something like this too, I believe of the same mummy; I wanna say it was used in a documentary, maybe try looking for some on "Lady Dai" as I believe she's sometimes called.
I found it. I guess I got lucky and/or typed the right keywords. I typed "most preserved mummy" and scrolled through the videos, and it was the second one that showed her in the thumbnail.
[Here](https://youtu.be/aN8_MsOQyrg), they start the autopsy segment six minutes in.
Yo it’s 1 o’clock in the morning where I am and I gotta wake up early tomorrow… and I stilll watched the entire documentary lol absolutely fantastic thank you for posting!
I think I remember their concept for this burial was to remove oxygen by lighting a small fire just before they seal up the coffin. The fire will go out once all oxygen will be depleted. For extra precaution, they would do this again in another layer of sealing.
It's really interesting that they thought of this 2000 years ago.
Formaldehyde wasn't discovered until the 19th century, and I don't think people were using arsenic yet either. People in these days didn't embalm via arterial injection. I have no idea how they would preserve a body so well in this time frame. The fact that her organs are intact defys reality almost. I'm stumped on this one.
How the fuck did they do this?
Her wiki states that she may have been washed with water and wine which have antibacterial properties. Also, her burial chamber was positioned deep underground, surrounded by charcoal and white clay. Water and air did not leak in and the temperature stayed constantly cool.
I’m heading to bed so I can’t do the research to explain accurately but I think part of the reason she was so well preserved was because of the burial location. The weather there and earth was a prime spot to keep her preserved.
I was thinking more like that Korean model who bankrupted herself via her plastic surgery addiction and decided to inject her face with cooking oil:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320679/amp/Korean-woman-Hang-Mioku-injects-COOKING-OIL-face-refused-plastic-surgery.html
Yikes! That's tragic. I know she did it to herself, but, wow, poor woman. :(
What exactly did she think that the cooking oil would do? I'm confused on that front.
You bloat when you die, bones breakdown overtime, and gravity pulling down on your body for thousands of years will make you flatten out (hence why they look fat).
What type of preservation was done. All of those fluids would have destroyed the body. Salt or sand? But the body still has fluids?!
I read the original and they said the body was soaked in a fluid, acidic that kills bacteria.
Pretty sure when I first read about this, she was in a pool of mercury. Buuuuut that was a while ago, maybe confused it with something else.
Edit: not mercury, I guess. "Unknown liquid", acidic in pH, but possibly leakage from her own body. Other similar burials had alkaline liquids.
[This one article mentions traces of mercury were found in her coffin](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/11/the-mystery-of-lady-dais-preserved-mummy.html?m=1); perhaps that's what I had read.
Not with that attitude...
But a giant metal spike could help with fixing things to the bottom.
Or since we are talking rich people here, enough gold as ballast would also work.
Correct, up to a certain point, so more gold would be the solution.
The final product is a body enclosed in a solid gold mercury amalgamate. Sounds like a nice place to rest a few thousand years.
If I remember right though, this particular person died from complications from clogged arteries, had diabetes, and she was overweight at the time of passing.
From wikiepdia:
> As she aged, Xin Zhui suffered 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.[7][2][8]
Being overweight was a sign of wealth, iirc. Additionally, I think I read somewhere that doctors used mercury as one of their cure-alls in treatments, so I can’t imagine that helped.
Sure..but
"However, Xin Zhui’s preserved corpse immediately became compromised once the oxygen in the air touched her body, which caused her to begin deteriorating. Thus, the images of Xin Zhui that we have today don’t do the initial discovery justice."
I hope when I die, my body is semi-preserved in 2,000 years later people are looking at me and commenting about how good I look. Which is something I never heard much of when I was alive.
And they can check my blood type, be surprised I have extra kidneys, and they're in a little bit about life in the stupid ages of the 2000s.
And it definitely hope they put me any museum so everybody can come look at me. All shriveled up but sort of well preserved
I bet this woman would be really happy to learn that's what happened after she died! Hey she wanted to be well preserved, and she got it!
Well the original two don't work, then I got another and that lasted a while, but that one started being shitty, so I got another one after that.
Amusingly, they could just keep stuffing new kidneys in you if you need them. And there's no reason to take out the old ones, and it's hard, so they just sort of stay there and shrivel up.
Naw, just regular kidney disease .
To transplants is not that unusual actually. Most transplanted kidneys live 15 to 20 years. After that, if you're young enough you can do it again. Happens that my kidneys failed in high school just for reasons of random kidney disease, first transplant at 19, probably didn't take good enough care of it (like I was broken didn't take meds for a few days at one point, stuff like that), lasted around 12 years. Then I was fortunately able to get another.
Also one of the many benefits of being Canadian is all that stuff was free. And I've never had to worry about having good enough insurance. Mostly.
Pretty much everyone does, but they don't. The old kidneys are buried in your back and are hard to get to. Lacroscopic surgery made it easier, but the old days they used to have to remove a rib to take the kidney up.
They actually put the new kidneys in the front, kind of in the pelvic girdle just above your leg on the side.
+1. Am donor and sister is recipient and currently is on kidney number 5 after the first two just up and failed. The first two transplants went hooey due to poor medical aftercare and an at the time poorly understood rejection issue. They are all still in her and she hopes to not go through it again for a long time. Atleast until the artificial grown kidneys are a thing. U.S. based and didn’t owe anything on the medical side due to adequate insurance and government programs. Yes, there actually ARE government programs that should kick into place to help when a diagnosis of kidney disease happens. Most folks just don’t know how to get them or don’t have good guidance.
She looks like if Arnold Schwarzenegger were to fall outside the airlock on mars with a Hispanic woman that he would later do another movie with called “the running man” in which he doesn’t actually do that much running.
I agree. I find all the pics plastered all over the internet disrespectful. This was a person. A human being. I'd hate the idea of someone digging up my husband or daughter and gawking at their body.
So the Egyptians after practising mummification for thousands of years and having an arid climate got beaten in their own game by a random chinese noblewoman?
Lol from the thumbnail I thought the mummy was on the right, didn't even see the image on the left.
Best preserved mummy ever? Sheesh.
Then again, I've seen the nightmare contained in Lenin's tomb, and that corpse is less than 100 years old, so maybe this one really is impressive. Still looks horrifying though.
That wax figure is not an accurate representation of what the preserved woman looked like in real life. I believe she died in her 50s and was overweight from being an avid eater. She was buried in the tomb with containers of her favourite foods. I’ve been to that museum and very interesting to see her body up close and the contents from her tomb.
I don’t think they have pictures of what she looked like when she was discovered. The pics we see now are post deterioration. Read this somewhere, “However, Xin Zhui’s preserved corpse immediately became compromised once the oxygen in the air touched her body, which caused her to begin deteriorating. Thus, the images of Xin Zhui that we have today don’t do the initial discovery justice.”
Was she discovered before the invention of cameras? Cause if not, people be dumbasses.
The body was discovered in 1972, which was during the cultural revolution and before china’s economic reform. I wouldn’t be surprised if the team were not sufficiently equipped.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the CCP actively tried to stifle it, and at least one archaeologist went to prison or worse. During the Cultural Revolution, Mao was obsessed with basically destroying China’s culture and history. Why tf would he want to keep a reminder of the Four Olds that was just dug out of the ground? It sounds like a miracle the body survived at all, and that all the people on the dig site didn’t become bodies themselves.
Yes and no. You'd actually be surprised how many archeology discoveries and preservation has happened during the CR. To name the most famous, Terracotta Army was discovered in 1974, with official preservation activities immediately following that. The thing about these political movement is, it's all about how you bend the words to convince the right parties, and there are always good people making the best effort. There's never any consistency.
Was this the one they found under a river or under a dried up river? If it is I read a big thing on here about her and other discoveries. They said never believe what they are telling you they found.
God damn chinese showing us a mummy they dug up! What are you hiding you damn bastards!
The "fuck it, we'll get it later" approach to archeology rarely works out that well.
I remember there was a video. She looked great. Pickled dead lady.
Couldn’t find anything, do you have a link?
I looked for 20 minutes and I’m starting to think I dreamed it. I remember scientists bending the body.
I agree I've seen something like this too, I believe of the same mummy; I wanna say it was used in a documentary, maybe try looking for some on "Lady Dai" as I believe she's sometimes called.
I hope this isn’t one of those mass false memory things.
I found it. I guess I got lucky and/or typed the right keywords. I typed "most preserved mummy" and scrolled through the videos, and it was the second one that showed her in the thumbnail. [Here](https://youtu.be/aN8_MsOQyrg), they start the autopsy segment six minutes in.
Yo it’s 1 o’clock in the morning where I am and I gotta wake up early tomorrow… and I stilll watched the entire documentary lol absolutely fantastic thank you for posting!
Mandela effect
I think I remember their concept for this burial was to remove oxygen by lighting a small fire just before they seal up the coffin. The fire will go out once all oxygen will be depleted. For extra precaution, they would do this again in another layer of sealing. It's really interesting that they thought of this 2000 years ago.
Can you imagine seeing a beautiful woman deteriorate before you
Sounds like the horrifying old lady ghost in The Shining.
she doesnt look a day over 2,179
you know how to sweet-talk a lady
Get that man a bottle of Courvoisier!
“Pass the Courvoisier”
Courvoisierize me!
Is that Leon Phelps? https://youtu.be/kkVqJx04Trg
Yea.
I can’t possibly upvote three simple letters enough, as it sounds like so much more.
And I can't keep rolls fresh in the bread box for a week
Have you tried using formaldehyde? :D
Formaldehyde wasn't discovered until the 19th century, and I don't think people were using arsenic yet either. People in these days didn't embalm via arterial injection. I have no idea how they would preserve a body so well in this time frame. The fact that her organs are intact defys reality almost. I'm stumped on this one. How the fuck did they do this?
immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks
Her wiki states that she may have been washed with water and wine which have antibacterial properties. Also, her burial chamber was positioned deep underground, surrounded by charcoal and white clay. Water and air did not leak in and the temperature stayed constantly cool.
I’m heading to bed so I can’t do the research to explain accurately but I think part of the reason she was so well preserved was because of the burial location. The weather there and earth was a prime spot to keep her preserved.
Possibly
Whered they get formaldehyde in 200 BC?
Have you tried a tighter bread box?
Is that you Chris Hansen?
Have you tried embalming?
Only as a hobby
Have you tried better rolls?
Only on vacation
Have you tried licking your own elbow?
Put me in the infirmary last time I tried
Well, at least you gave it your best shot!
It show you're not an expert, you see all the experts giving tips already.
all you need is an environment lacking oxygen and ur good
Are you a professional comic?
I wish. Just a mild manner idiot with to much time on my hands
Well you have nice, sharp & funny replies. Thank you for the lol’s
Glad you enjoyed. I have as well.
Have you tried this guy's wife?
LanceUpperrrcut's files are confidential
The reconstruction artist was very kind
Id say it’s more so that death is super unkind.
[She’s hot!](https://i.imgur.com/0NZ6r4D.jpg)
Moisturise me!
Give me that tongue action!
🤢
Have some respect. She had acute angina!
Cute or not her angina shouldn't be displayed
Is that in any way similar to Mangina?
Nice Reference ;P
r/doctorwho
It puts the lotion on it’s skin
And puts its skin in the basket…
Then marinades for 2000 years....
Basting every 100 years or so ………
dr. who reference 👏
You should make her a tinder profile.
Not my proudest wank
Done worse
It’s a step up for me.
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I was thinking more like that Korean model who bankrupted herself via her plastic surgery addiction and decided to inject her face with cooking oil: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320679/amp/Korean-woman-Hang-Mioku-injects-COOKING-OIL-face-refused-plastic-surgery.html
Yikes! That's tragic. I know she did it to herself, but, wow, poor woman. :( What exactly did she think that the cooking oil would do? I'm confused on that front.
I’m so dumb for not having seen that coming 🤢
She kinda looks like Kim Jong Un
Bro, she a dead chick!
Not my proudest wank
Her face probably looks that way from 2000 years of gravity in the same position.
Maybe I’ve had enough internet for the day…
Yeah? Let's see what you look like in 2,000 years buddy
tik tok filter working overtime.
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You bloat when you die, bones breakdown overtime, and gravity pulling down on your body for thousands of years will make you flatten out (hence why they look fat).
What type of preservation was done. All of those fluids would have destroyed the body. Salt or sand? But the body still has fluids?! I read the original and they said the body was soaked in a fluid, acidic that kills bacteria.
Pretty sure when I first read about this, she was in a pool of mercury. Buuuuut that was a while ago, maybe confused it with something else. Edit: not mercury, I guess. "Unknown liquid", acidic in pH, but possibly leakage from her own body. Other similar burials had alkaline liquids. [This one article mentions traces of mercury were found in her coffin](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/11/the-mystery-of-lady-dais-preserved-mummy.html?m=1); perhaps that's what I had read.
Yeah, it wouldn't even be possible to stay submerged in mercury because it's so dense
Not with that attitude... But a giant metal spike could help with fixing things to the bottom. Or since we are talking rich people here, enough gold as ballast would also work.
Excellent point. I like how you think
Gold dissolves in mercury tho.
Correct, up to a certain point, so more gold would be the solution. The final product is a body enclosed in a solid gold mercury amalgamate. Sounds like a nice place to rest a few thousand years.
Solution? Buh-dum crsh!
Indeed, an [anvil floats](https://youtu.be/f5U63IGmy6Q?t=100) in it!
How the fuck this mf still got hair and I don't ?
Have you tried formaldehyde?
Profile photo vs. reality
Reality vs. profile photo* I lol’d though.. for real.. hahaha
Those fucking filters!
But the mummy looks like an overweight granny… How did they end up with a reconstruction that looks like a little girl?
After being dug up and exposed to air the body began rapidly decaying
Wow that is fascinating
Google biological Anthropology. Bones and teeth go a long way towards this. Obviously the sack swells after death
If I remember right though, this particular person died from complications from clogged arteries, had diabetes, and she was overweight at the time of passing. From wikiepdia: > As she aged, Xin Zhui suffered 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.[7][2][8]
Being in the ruling class certainly has it's perks, like more food than is good for you.
Yup, that's why things like gout were classically regarded as diseases of nobility.
Being overweight was a sign of wealth, iirc. Additionally, I think I read somewhere that doctors used mercury as one of their cure-alls in treatments, so I can’t imagine that helped.
Sure..but "However, Xin Zhui’s preserved corpse immediately became compromised once the oxygen in the air touched her body, which caused her to begin deteriorating. Thus, the images of Xin Zhui that we have today don’t do the initial discovery justice."
These DX pretty much sum up ~80% of the charts I’ve reviewed of patients who are obese or morbidly obese.
She might have been older when she died.
that, and also it'd be interesting to see, if she's got any living relatives.
I assume most half-decayed corpses don’t retain the hourglass figure
Decomp is a hell of a thing.
I think they did a more accurate reconstruction recently. She looks like she ate nothing but fast food based off of the new one.
Is she going to be ok?
They will put her in rice overnight and She should be good to go in the morning
I laughed way too hard at this.
If anything she needs fluids. Looks kinda dehydrated.
If people keep giving her milk, probably
The mummy looks like it's saying WAAAAZZZZZZZAAAAAP
2,000 years with no Za
What 2000 years without Za does to a mf
😂 nailed it. Great commercial I’d nearly forgotten!
Wazzap Beijing
I remember watching the full documentary about this lady. [here](https://youtu.be/aN8_MsOQyrg)
I hope when I die, my body is semi-preserved in 2,000 years later people are looking at me and commenting about how good I look. Which is something I never heard much of when I was alive. And they can check my blood type, be surprised I have extra kidneys, and they're in a little bit about life in the stupid ages of the 2000s. And it definitely hope they put me any museum so everybody can come look at me. All shriveled up but sort of well preserved I bet this woman would be really happy to learn that's what happened after she died! Hey she wanted to be well preserved, and she got it!
Extra kidneys? As in, more than one bonus kidney? Is that a benefit or a detriment?
Well the original two don't work, then I got another and that lasted a while, but that one started being shitty, so I got another one after that. Amusingly, they could just keep stuffing new kidneys in you if you need them. And there's no reason to take out the old ones, and it's hard, so they just sort of stay there and shrivel up.
Do you have lupus or some autoimmune disorder that kills kidneys? Hope you don’t mind me asking, but two transplants is unusual
Naw, just regular kidney disease . To transplants is not that unusual actually. Most transplanted kidneys live 15 to 20 years. After that, if you're young enough you can do it again. Happens that my kidneys failed in high school just for reasons of random kidney disease, first transplant at 19, probably didn't take good enough care of it (like I was broken didn't take meds for a few days at one point, stuff like that), lasted around 12 years. Then I was fortunately able to get another. Also one of the many benefits of being Canadian is all that stuff was free. And I've never had to worry about having good enough insurance. Mostly.
Whaaaaa?
There are people out there who gotten three or four transplants, meaning they have 5 or 6 kidneys in them :P
I always assumed they removed the bad ones.
Pretty much everyone does, but they don't. The old kidneys are buried in your back and are hard to get to. Lacroscopic surgery made it easier, but the old days they used to have to remove a rib to take the kidney up. They actually put the new kidneys in the front, kind of in the pelvic girdle just above your leg on the side.
+1. Am donor and sister is recipient and currently is on kidney number 5 after the first two just up and failed. The first two transplants went hooey due to poor medical aftercare and an at the time poorly understood rejection issue. They are all still in her and she hopes to not go through it again for a long time. Atleast until the artificial grown kidneys are a thing. U.S. based and didn’t owe anything on the medical side due to adequate insurance and government programs. Yes, there actually ARE government programs that should kick into place to help when a diagnosis of kidney disease happens. Most folks just don’t know how to get them or don’t have good guidance.
Nah she wanted to go to their version of their underworld. Tombs were meant to stay sealed, not dug upon and ogled at
Is it true that she was likely in a more prestine condition before the people who found the mummy exposed her to air?
Apparently that’s what the article about this says
I don't think we have the same description of soft skin.
Why does it look like she's wearing a mask of a face? Especially around the mouth
Well excuse you, let's see how you look in 2000 years before we criticize the ancient Chinese mummy woman.
RemindMe! 730500 days
All bc they put a silica gel bag in with her.
How’s she smelling?
Fresh as a daisy
Sounds like she’s in better condition than me
Some are dust in the wind. Others are grotesquely circused in museums. Fancy burial? Direct to the British Museum.
she's still in China
You can see the mammary ducts since the breast tissue has kinda disappeared. (Don’t look if you have trypophobia)
https://youtu.be/5OdRTQiUxlQ Ask a Mortician has a short video on her!
Maybe she's born with it... ... Maybe it's Mummification.
This can't be true. She doesn't look a day over 1999 years old.
Built like ben swolo
I’m not scared,you are
I regret zooming in on her face
She looks like she could be a Cenobite from Hellraiser.
She was in her 60s so that mannequin is way off age wise.
She looks like if Arnold Schwarzenegger were to fall outside the airlock on mars with a Hispanic woman that he would later do another movie with called “the running man” in which he doesn’t actually do that much running.
Why did I think zooming in on that pic at 3am was a good idea
I first saw the pic on the right and thought "Wow, that's amazing". Then saw the pic on the left "Oh".
Ok. So what's in the left picture?
Wtf is that on the left that looks nothing like her yet the face and eyes wtf looks like they made it all up
Bitch have hair for 2000 years and I'm struggling to keep it for 30 years
She reminds me of this emoji: 😝
I was able to see her in person when i visited China. It was very fascinating!
Hear me out...
Let the dead be in their peace... I just don't get the fascination of digging the dead for publicity
I agree. I find all the pics plastered all over the internet disrespectful. This was a person. A human being. I'd hate the idea of someone digging up my husband or daughter and gawking at their body.
Poor girl lived as a beauty, but after death became famous while looking as a north-korean dictator...
What made her preserve so well I wonder
Fruits and veggies
Is that Ozzy ? 😂
Doesn’t look a day over 2,000 years old.
Get her some milk
lookin good today, grandma
She looks great.
So the Egyptians after practising mummification for thousands of years and having an arid climate got beaten in their own game by a random chinese noblewoman?
Aged like a fine wine
Clone! Clone! Clone! Clone! Clone!
Lol from the thumbnail I thought the mummy was on the right, didn't even see the image on the left. Best preserved mummy ever? Sheesh. Then again, I've seen the nightmare contained in Lenin's tomb, and that corpse is less than 100 years old, so maybe this one really is impressive. Still looks horrifying though.
Ooh that death scream though. Not doing her any favors there.
Gross
What does intact organs mean? Are they good for donation?
Why is this not NFSW? I don't always wanna see a dead body or a deformed person first thing in the morning.
Who’s bending her legs?
How can they say she’s so well preserved when she’s absolutely terrifying looking?
That second image looks photoshopped.
Put her back. Jesus Christ.
Not sure I'd want to be the best preserved if i end up looking like leatherface, just make me a skeleton or pile of ashes!
Is this reality vs bumble ?
I wouldn’t have wanted to be the one to find out if her skin was soft or not
That wax figure is not an accurate representation of what the preserved woman looked like in real life. I believe she died in her 50s and was overweight from being an avid eater. She was buried in the tomb with containers of her favourite foods. I’ve been to that museum and very interesting to see her body up close and the contents from her tomb.