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- 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
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
- 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
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.