2,000-Year-Old Chinese Woman Lady Dai Is One Of The Most Well-Preserved Mummies In The World

All That's Interesting ^ | December 5, 2018

[robowombat]

New Democratic voter located.

[al baby]

Bill Clinton would love to boink it

[BillyBoy]

If this is a "Well preserved mummy", I'd hate to see what a poorly preserved mummy looks like:

Ramesses II has been dead over 1000 years longer, and he's in better shape than that gal.

[Billthedrill]

I’ve seen worse. In the mirror.

[robowombat]

That is what happened when it was exposed to onygen.

[Swordmaker]

II has been dead over 1000 years longer, and he's in better shape than that gal.

Uh, nope, don’t think so.

Ramses II called "the Great"

[fieldmarshaldj]

*another old article ping*

Lady Dai ? Ain’t no Billie Holiday.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Looks like Kim “I’m so ronery” Jong-Il.

[rxsid]

"Her funnel-like crypt contained more than 1,000 precious artifacts, including makeup, toiletries..."

Some things are just universal...and ancient.

[VanDeKoik]

“If this is a “Well preserved mummy”, I’d hate to see what a poorly preserved mummy looks like”

???

I seriously hope you are joking or just dont know much about this topic.

[littleharbour]

“I don’t know if you’ve seen that mummy,” Clinton said. “But you know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That’s a good looking mummy! ”

https://www.deseret.com/1996/5/23/19244259/ice-princess-a-hot-mummy-to-clinton

[Candor7]

She’s not MY mummy!

[Hot Tabasco]

This is the third weird thread this morning......LOL!

[Candor7]

GodsGravesGlyphs Ping.

[Adder]

50 was “young”?
Thought the average keel over time was like 45....

[fruser1]

“50”

Life expectancy is an average. Low values are mostly driven by infant mortality - a lot of zeros getting averaged in.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj and Candor7. [humming] in my solitude...

[BillyBoy]

Ummm yes I think so.

Ramesses II was a frail old man in his 90s, crippled with severe arthritis when he died, and still retains pretty much the exact same facial features, skin and hair intact.

Xin Zhui, on the other hand, looks nothing like she did in life, she was an attractive, wealthy, middle aged Chinese princess. Her body is now severely decayed and her facial features completely unrecognizable:

[BillyBoy]

True, I could buy the "Well preserved Mummy" much better if they said it was Kim Jong II's mummified body, recovered from a swamp or something. Xin Zhui looked nothing like that when she was alive.

[Swordmaker]

You are using circular arguments in which the life portraits are constructions of artists using the looks of their mummies to reconstruct what they may have looked like in life. We do NOT have photo quality images of either of them in life. Sorry, you are just wrong. Ramses the Great’s mummy is desiccated and highly discolored. Hers is not, it still evinces soft tissue with fat and skin color intact. That’s a huge difference.