Lady Dai Mummy Tomb
Feb 25 2018 brad smithfield.
Lady dai mummy tomb. But the dai familys tombs had been placed 12 meters inside the hill which kept the corpses relatively cool. Her body had been swaddled in 20 layers of silk and she was found in 80 litres of an unknown liquid that was mildly acidic with some magnesium in it. The mystery behind the mummy of lady dai.
Xin zhui also known as lady dai or marquise of dai was the wife of li cang the marquis of dai and chancellor of changsha kingdom during the western han dynasty of ancient china. One of the worlds most preserved mummies the lady of dai is still soft to the touch has bendy ligaments and is 2100 years old. Her body was also found tightly wrapped in 20 layers of silk preventing bacteria from causing her remains to decompose placed in four nesting coffins sealed with a heavy lacquer.
Since the workers were about to construct a spacious air raid shelter for a nearby hospital they were digging deep into the hill. Reconstruction of xin zhui the lady dai. The lady of dai also known as xin zhui lived during the han dynasty that reigned from 206 bce to 220 ad in china and was the wife of the marquis of dai.
A well sealed tomb lady dai was found in an airtight tomb 12 metres underground locked inside four layers of coffins. After her death xin zhui was buried in a remote location inside the mawangdui hill. In 1971 a group of construction workers began digging on the slopes of a hill named mawangdui near the chinese city of changsha.