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Xin Zhui

The Diva Mummy

Artifacts

Preservation

- Dolls to represent her servants

- Skeletons of her favorite meats

- Clothing (a full wardrobe)

- Makeup

- Silk artworks (one draped over her coffin)

- Faceted Dice

- Statues (e.g. Man and drum)

- Musical instruments

- Furniture

- Money

- Herbal medicines

- Ornaments

- Documents and artworks

- musical instruments including a 125 string zither

46 bolts of silk tapestries

The Cause of Lady Xin's Death: atherosclerosis or coronary artery disease

Role as Curator

1. Firstly Lady Dai was wrapped with 22 silk tapestries which smothered alive bacteria in her body.

2. She was then placed in a coffin filled with an ancient elixir. There were 4 coffins each confined tightly inside another.

3. The coffins were protected in a tremendous tomb nearly 3m high, 6m long and wide.

4. The tomb was covered by 5 tonnes of charcoal. Encased with one meter thick of moisturised, white clay known as kaolin then covered in earth and soil.

Fat Deposits

- Recreate a more accurate wax sculpture that more accurately depicts the short and fat (50kg's at only 1.54m tall) stature of Lady Xin.

- Display the most significant artifacts

- Keep the body and artifacts safe

- Display Replica's

Health Concerns

The Autopsy

- Obesity                                          

- gallstones                                            

- liver disease

- Overweight                                  

- high blood pressure                      

- coronary artery were almost completely enclosed with fat

- high cholesterol            

- Diabetes

- Fracture in the right arm

- Tape-worms, whipworms and various other parasite colonies lived within the body of Lady Xin

- A fused disk in her lower spine caused a bad back and also explains why she was so overweight

Throughout the autopsy, the mummies excellent preservation is revealed;

- Flexible Joints

- Soft Skin

- Perfectly preserved hair

- Brain and internal organs intact

- Type-A Blood

Uncovering the Body

Interpretations & Concussions

Lady Xin's  tomb was accidentally found in the early 1970s on Mawangdui, a hill in Changsha, near the capital of Hunan Province in China by workers

- Unlike the many other wealthy aristocrats within

China’s violent history that died and lived

fighting without properly enjoying such prosperity,

Xin Zhui existed in a time period that the people of

China feel is one of the greatest, prosperous, and

most peaceful, periods of Chinese history –

the Han Dynasty-Era.

- For her and many others aristocrats of the time,

death was merely a dinner party that never ended

and could not spoil the fun.

- Caused scientists to reassess when heart disease

became evident amongst the killers of our ancient

ancestors.

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