Fully dressed and preserved 350-year-old corpse of French noblewoman found

theguardian.com ^ | Wednesday 3 June 2015 18.40 EDT | Kim Willsher in Paris

[BenLurkin]

was discovered in an hermetically sealed lead coffin

Better even than a hermitically sealed mayonnaise jar kept on Funk and Wagnall's porch...

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Was she dead when they put her in the coffin or did the lead kill her?

[cripplecreek]

Dibs on the rich cougar!

[SaveFerris]

since 11:00 o’clock this morning!

[Ronald_Magnus]

Isn’t this kind of like grave robbing.

[Michael.SF.]

Researchers expected to find little but dust and bones

Who goofed????? I've got to know.

[Tijeras_Slim]

John Kerry beat you to it!

[fini]

In the 1990s in Roanoke Va, they were moving a family graveyard to another location and one of the coffins was a lead coffin with a glass window- showing the face of the deceased. According to the newspaper article, the person looked like he had been buried for weeks not over a hundred years.

[BenLurkin]

She was disinterred fully dressed — so at least Bill Clinton didn’t get to the mummy first.

[no-to-illegals]

too many politicians beat the ‘poor’ to the corpse

[BenLurkin]

“She is a lovely lady and my apologies to her.”

[ETL]

"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That’s a good-looking mummy" --Bill Clinton, looking at an Incan mummy ("Mummy Juanita") at the National Geographic museum

Mummy Juanita:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_Juanita

[Craftmore]

The catholic church will declare her a saint.

[BenLurkin]

You must know more about her life than the article discusses.

[Snickering Hound]

[LonePalm]

Laz?

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Menehune56]

"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That’s a good-looking mummy" --Bill Clinton, looking at an Incan mummy ("Mummy Juanita") at the National Geographic museum

I'm ashamed to say that was my first thought too.

[ETL]

I'm ashamed to say that was my first thought too.

That 'Mummy Juanita' is a good looking mummy?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Typically, when people are buried in airtight coffins, the bacteria inside them tends to liquify their remains. Which makes this case quite interesting.