2,000-year-old corpse found intact in mystery fluid

The Straits Times ^ | July 19,2002 | Editorial Staff

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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.

[Righty1]

Goood One!!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Give it a week. The North Koreans will claim credit for the technology.

[Jhoffa_]

Damn, he's as bad as Captain Kirk!

[Jhoffa_]

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.

[El Gato]

Kirk never bit anybody's lip, rape anyone, nor told her to put some ice on it.

[buffyt]

HA HA HA HA HA HA ROTF!!!!!

[buffyt]

TRUE! Hillary the Hairy Mistress of Darkness.

[Aurelius]

BUMP

[Tennessee_Bob]

It's too late. Remember Nancy Kwan and her Pearl Cream?

[Young Werther]

Right cream wrong Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. "Flower Drum Song". Thanks TN Bob!

[lsee]

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.

[goodieD]

It was Tang.

[IRtorqued]

In ten days we will see the first of the info-mercials.

ah, but will it work?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Why does this sound like something straight out of one of those grocery-store-rack tabloids?! ;-]

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

You took the words right out of my mouth!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I wouldn't be surprised if you're not all that far off the mark.

[weegee]

It was Tang.

President Clinton was addicted to Tang and he was never even an astronaut.

[weegee]

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.

[goodieD]

LOL! took me a minute to get that one, thanks for the chuckle.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.