Posted on 06/04/2015 4:17:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
French archaeologists have uncovered the well-preserved body of a noblewoman who died 350 years ago – along with the clothes in which she was buried, including her cap and shoes, still intact.
The corpse of Louise de Quengo, a widow from an aristocratic family from Brittany, was discovered in an hermetically sealed lead coffin placed in a stone tomb at a convent chapel in the western city of Rennes.
Four other lead coffins dating from the 17th century were also found at the site of the Saint-Joseph chapel, as well as 800 other graves containing skeletons.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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!
since 11:00 o’clock this morning!
Isn’t this kind of like grave robbing.
Who goofed????? I've got to know.
John Kerry beat you to it!
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.
She was disinterred fully dressed — so at least Bill Clinton didn’t get to the mummy first.
too many politicians beat the ‘poor’ to the corpse
“She is a lovely lady and my apologies to her.”
"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
The catholic church will declare her a saint.
You must know more about her life than the article discusses.
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I'm ashamed to say that was my first thought too.
That 'Mummy Juanita' is a good looking mummy?
Typically, when people are buried in airtight coffins, the bacteria inside them tends to liquify their remains. Which makes this case quite interesting.
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