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But are there other tombs that are buried 16 meters and deeper? What are the conditions of those bodies?
The articles I found did not say how deep the other Mawangdui bodies were buried, but all but two total were just dust and bones. So, her body's condition is the exception, not the norm.
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So was she dry or was she placed in a solution? (Not that I bashing you or anything.
The internet article implied that she was placed in a solution. I think this is wrong. All of the academic journals I checked said nothing of the sort. But, exactly how the liquid was used is unknown or was not published.
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I am wondering what the scientists have discover about the body itself.
From David Buck's article:
"The corpse measured 1.54 m. in height and wieghed 34.3 kgm. One account stated, 'This aristocratic woman was about fifty and had led the idle dissipated life of the exploiting classes. Well nourished, she had plenty of subcutaneous fat...' (China Reconstructs 1973:32). The examinations also told a great deal about the Lady's medical history. As a young woman she had borne children and was around fifty when she died. Her right forearm had been deformed as a result of an improperly set fracture, and she had also a distinct narrowing of the forth lumbar space, a condition that caused her to stand and walk in a bent posture. Her left lung contained a calcified tuberculosis foci. She suffered from schistosomiasis, gall stones, and there was evidence of pin and whipworms in the intestinal tract. Lady [Dai] had Type-A blood and her arteries showed the build-up of heavy plaques to the extent that her left coronary artery was three-quarters blocked by these arteriosclerotic plaques. The autopsy concluded that sh had probably died of myocardial infarction sometime shortly after eating musk melon. Seeds of that fruit were found in her esophagus, stomach and intestines.
The corpse also revealed how an aristocratic coiffure of the period was made, as well as details of dress and adornment. She was wearing a bag of herbs around her neck. These herbs were among those prescribed for a certain illness in the Huang-ti nei ching (The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine).
The corpse in Tomb No. 3 had decomposed leaving little more than the skeleton. The layer of white clay in tomb No. 3 was much thinner than in Lady Dai's tomb and this is believed to have permitted decomposition of the male corpse."