Well preserved 700-year-old mummy found

The Ming Dynasty, who built the Forbidden City and restored the Great Wall, was the last in China and marked an era of economic growth and cultural splendour which produced the first commercial contacts with the West. not quite accurate entirely ... more accurate would be "the first commercial contacts with the West in the modern era" then again what is west according to the west is not quite the same as what is west of china to the chinese i guess

aww, cute shoes!

Jeez, talk about nightmares! I feel for the guys who dug her up. Well preserved, maybe. Scary as hell, o yeah! (and the shoes ARE kinda cute)

"The woman, discovered two metres below the surface in a wooden tomb, was wearing a Ming Dynasty dress and is thought to have been at a high-ranking level" LOL, I will also die in some royal dress so that everyone thinks that I was a king, Just kidding.

Something new I always thought that the mummys found in China was due to desication or the tightly sealed tombs I did not know the Chinese practice mummification too quite a surprise.

Im wondering if the brown liquid that was covering the mummy was some sort of preserving liquid ? I wonder what its compounds were ? TiP.

Tea?

aww, cute shoes! Agreed, very nice shoes.

This is all very interesting, the coolest thing about this I'd have to say is the ring. That ring is 700 years old, and it looks to me like it's made of Jade. It has to be worth an astonishing amount of money.

What amazing preservation! To think that we are still finding mummies this well preserved! I love this kind of stuff