Last month, road workers in the midst of constructing a road in
the city of Taizhou in China’s Jiangsu province, discovered a
wooden tomb some six feet below the surface.
Inside, lay the corpse of what was once without question a woman
of high and perhaps even noble rank from the Ming Dynasty, the
ruling power in China between 1368 and 1644.
Perhaps even more remarkable than the discovery itself was the
fact that the woman’s features including her hair, skin and
eyelashes as well as her clothing even down to her shoes, were
extremely well preserved and gave the appearance of someone who had
recently died.
Soon after the discovery, Chinese archaeologists from the nearby
Museum of Taizhou were called in to handle the excavation of this
most unusual artifact as well as two smaller tombs found nearby,
and decipher the many secrets therein about life as it was back
then.
Clothed in silk and cotton, and wearing a most valuable ring on
one finger, this mummy is the first of its kind to be
discovered in this area of China.
There are more questions than answers at this point, and the
mysterious lady remains…all dressed up with no place to go!
