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2,000-year-old corpse found intact in mystery fluid
The Straits Times ^
| July 19,2002
| Editorial Staff
Posted on 07/18/2002 5:48:23 PM PDT by vannrox
2,000-year-old corpse found intact in mystery fluid
BEIJING - The corpse of a woman who died more than 2,000 years ago has been found well preserved in a mystery fluid in eastern China, state media reported on Saturday.
The body of the woman, who was believed to have lived during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 24), still had some of her skin, muscle tissue and veins, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Workers at a building site in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, discovered the corpse, which was in a coffin, on July 8.
'The female corpse, estimated to be over 2,000 years old, is said to still have elastic muscle tissue from being immersed in a special fluid in her coffin,' Xinhua quoted Lianyungang museum curator Zhou Jinping as saying.
He said a rectangular lacquer box, a bamboo food container, a comb, a copper mirror and a lock of hair with a hairpin were also found in the coffin.
Xinhua described the corpse as priceless in terms of archaeological research and said it was now being preserved in formalin solution and covered with a layer of absorbent cotton.
It said the woman was only the third well-preserved Han Dynasty corpse ever discovered.--AFP
Copyright @ 2002 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthropology; archaeology; china; corpse; discovery; dynasty; fluid; found; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; jiangsu; lianyungang; mystery; oldbroad; province
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To: VadeRetro
Goood One!!
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posted on
07/18/2002 6:47:01 PM PDT
by
Righty1
To: vannrox
Give it a week. The North Koreans will claim credit for the technology.
To: VadeRetro
Damn, he's as bad as Captain Kirk!
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posted on
07/18/2002 7:10:22 PM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
To: Tennessee_Bob
Give it a week. The North Koreans will claim credit for the technology.
In ten days we will see the first of the info-mercials.
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posted on
07/18/2002 7:12:03 PM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
To: Jhoffa_
Kirk never bit anybody's lip, rape anyone, nor told her to put some ice on it.
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posted on
07/18/2002 7:13:40 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: VadeRetro
HA HA HA HA HA HA ROTF!!!!!
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posted on
07/18/2002 7:13:54 PM PDT
by
buffyt
To: APBaer
TRUE! Hillary the Hairy Mistress of Darkness.
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posted on
07/18/2002 7:15:05 PM PDT
by
buffyt
To: vannrox
BUMP
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posted on
07/18/2002 7:30:11 PM PDT
by
Aurelius
To: Jhoffa_
It's too late. Remember Nancy Kwan and her Pearl Cream?
To: Tennessee_Bob
Right cream wrong Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. "Flower Drum Song". Thanks TN Bob!
To: denydenydeny
Ah! Hahahahahaha! (giggle snort!) I was about to say, "that ain't no "mystery fluid", that's a crusty black pantsuit"...but your image was funnier! Thanks for the laugh.
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posted on
07/18/2002 8:30:48 PM PDT
by
lsee
To: vannrox
It was Tang.
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posted on
07/18/2002 8:36:52 PM PDT
by
goodieD
To: Jhoffa_
To: vannrox
Why does this sound like something straight out of one of those grocery-store-rack tabloids?! ;-]
To: strela
You took the words right out of my mouth!
To: big ern
I wouldn't be surprised if you're not all that far off the mark.
To: goodieD
It was Tang. President Clinton was addicted to Tang and he was never even an astronaut.
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posted on
07/18/2002 10:59:56 PM PDT
by
weegee
To: vannrox
I would have thought that there would have been more threads under the keyword of "OLD BROAD" by now. Maybe some with a certain member of the press.
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posted on
07/18/2002 11:03:06 PM PDT
by
weegee
To: weegee
LOL! took me a minute to get that one, thanks for the chuckle.
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posted on
07/18/2002 11:49:59 PM PDT
by
goodieD
To: GovernmentShrinker
Could it have been a combination of strong tea and vegetable (olive?) oil. The tannin in the tea would soak into the body and turn it into a leather like material. The oil would float on top of the tea and retard its evaporation.
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