Better even than a hermitically sealed mayonnaise jar kept on Funk and Wagnall's porch...
Was she dead when they put her in the coffin or did the lead kill her?
Dibs on the rich cougar!
Isn’t this kind of like grave robbing.
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.
too many politicians beat the ‘poor’ to the corpse
"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:
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"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)
Typically, when people are buried in airtight coffins, the bacteria inside them tends to liquify their remains. Which makes this case quite interesting.
Prince Albert in a can.FTA:
Researchers expected to find little but dust and bones when they opened the fifth coffin and were astonished to discover the nearly intact body of De Quengo, Lady of Brefeillac, who died in 1656, some time in her 60s. They were able to identify the 1.45 m (5ft) body because of inscriptions on a relic containing the heart of her husband, Toussaint de Perrien, Knight of Brefeillac, who died in 1649.
Archaeologist Rozenn Colleter, of the Institute National de Recherches Archaeologiques Préventive (National Institute for Preventative Archaeological Research), was present when De Quengo’s coffin was opened.
“It was a very beautiful discovery,” Colleter told the Guardian.
“We saw at once there was not just a well-preserved corpse but a mass of material that was still supple and humid, and shoes. Because the coffin was completely sealed it had kept everything preserved.
“But we had to move quickly because once the coffin was opened it sets off the decomposition process again after 350 years. We had 72 hours to bring the body down to four degrees to preserve everything.”
A postmortem examination revealed the woman had kidney stones and what radiologist and medical examiner Fabrice Dedouit said were “lung adhesions”. He said De Quengo’s heart had been taken out with “real surgical mastery”.
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“With Louise we had surprise after surprise,” Dedouit said.
The lead coffin was spotted under one of the convent’s supporting walls two years earlier but could not be removed without damaging the building. It was only last March that the archaeological teams were able to take it out.
De Quengo was dressed in simple religious vestments: a cape, chasuble, a brown habit in coarse wool, a plain linen shirt, woollen leg warmers, and leather shoes with cork soles. A devotional scapular was wrapped around her right arm and her hands were joined and holding a crucifix.
Her face was covered with a shroud, two bonnets and a hood. Researchers, who included specialists from the national Molecular Anthropological Laboratory, say it is possible the noblewoman entered the monastery after becoming a widow.
The corpse, uncovered in 2014, will be reburied in Rennes later in 2015, archaeologists have said. De Quengo’s clothes and shoes have been restored and are expected to be put on display.
Colleter said: “As archaeologists we are used to finding interesting things, but this is the sort of find that happened once in a career. It’s a dream to find something so exceptional, so unusual.”