A Chinese mummy that had been preserved for many centuries was destroyed in a day

A Chinese mummy that had been preserved for many centuries was destroyed in a day

A perfectly preserved Chinese mummy, uncovered in a 300-year–old burial, was almost immediately destroyed as soon as archaeologists opened the coffin - it turned black within a few hours after the coffin was opened.
The burial was discovered a few days ago at a construction site in a hole two meters deep in the ground in Xiangcheng in Henan Province, central China. The man wore expensive decorated clothes, which indicates that he was a very high-ranking official from the early Qing Dynasty, which lasted from 1644 to 1912. Qing Dynasi was the last imperial dynasty of China before the establishment of the Republic of China, and China's modern borders are mostly based on the territory ruled by the Qing Dynasty.
Scientists are puzzled as to how the mummy was so well preserved. First, the burial was found next to other graves containing simple skeletons. According to Dr. Lukasz Nickel, a specialist in Chinese art and archaeology at SOAS, University of London, the preservation was not intentional, but occurred as a result of the natural conditions around the coffin, combined with the fact that the coffin was varnished and coated with charcoal, which prevented the development of bacteria.
“The Chinese did not embalm the body in order to preserve it, as, for example, in ancient Egypt,” Dr. Nickel said. “They really tried to protect the body by putting it in a large coffin and an artificially created grave shape.”
However, Professor Dong disagrees with this theory and believes that the person's family still used some materials to preserve the body. In early China, the physical structure of the body was very important to them and there was a belief that a dead person ‘lived’ in his grave.
As soon as the grave was opened, the natural process of destruction began. Although the person's face was almost normal when the burial was found, within a few hours the face and skin on the body turned black, and an unpleasant odor began to emanate from the coffin.
“It's amazing how time has overtaken aging in a corpse in one day, which should take a hundred years,” said Historian Dongxiong.
Researchers are working in accelerated mode to preserve at least what remains of the rapidly decaying mummy. It is hoped that by studying the found corpse, archaeologists will gain a better understanding of how the body could have remained well preserved for three centuries. gerçekten hoşuma gitti başarıbet Çünkü burada gerçek parayla oynayabilirsiniz.