VIDEO: 2000-Year-Old Mummy Hasn’t Decayed at All. Her Skin Is Still Soft!

When they are talking about body preservation and mummies, people from all over the world think of Egypt and the bodies of Pharaohs, such as Tutankhamun and others.

But how many people know that the world’s best preserved mummy-like bodies actually come from China? It seems that the oldest and best-preserved mummy is from China and she doesn’t look at all like you would have imagined it too.

According to dailymail.co.uk, she may be 2,100 years old but she still has soft skin, all her own hair and eyelashes and her arms and legs can still bend.

And the Lady of Dai is considered the best-preserved mummy ever discovered. The body is of Xin Zhui, who was the wife of the Marquis of Dai and lived during the Han dynasty.

When she died more than 2,000 years ago she was overweight and was believed to have been suffering from high blood pressure, clogged arteries, diabetes and also had a severely damaged heart.

Her tomb was eventually discovered inside a hillside in Hunan in China when workers were trying to find an air raid shelter.

Scientists were stunned to discover how much her remains had been preserved as all her internal organs were intact along with her own type-A blood.

And so much mystery still surrounds the case, that a musical about Lady Dai’s life is playing in China. The show, called Beauty of the Han Dynasty is described as a lovely story about Lady Dai and her husband Li Cang.

It is being played in Changsha city, the provincial capital of Hunan Province where the mummy was found.

After analyzing her body, scientists believe that Lady Dai died aged 50 from heart disease due to her lavish lifestyle.

Her body was so well preserved that they also believe the last thing she ate before her death was melon.

When her tomb was discovered the body had been buried with her wardrobe of 100 silk garments, 160 carved wooden figures representing her servants as well as her make up and toiletries.

The body itself was swaddled in more than 20 layers of silk and then sealed within four coffins packed with charcoal and sealed with clay, making it watertight so bacteria could not enter.

This is the reason why her body hasn’t decomposed. Since it was so nicely sealed, nothing could enter, not even normal bacteria so her body had no way of decaying in the sealed chamber.

This discovery is a wonderful thing for science and we can learn a lot about those times from the woman’s body.

Some people argue that digging up mummies and studying them is wrong and that it isn’t normal, not because of some weird ancient curse, but because it’s wrong to dig out dead people no matter how long they have been buried.

They say that they wouldn’t want people to dig out their remains and study them so why should the mummies be given this treatment instead of letting them rest.