Believe it or not, this grotesque figure is considered to be one of the worlds best preserved mummies.
Even her internal organs are intact and there is still blood in her veins.
Not only were they able to reconstruct her death, but her life as well.
They even determined her blood typeType A.
The autopsy of Lady Dai is arguably the most complete medical profile ever compiled on an ancient individual.
The mummy of Lady Dai.
Lady Dai, or Xin Zhui, was the aristocratic wife of a Han Dynasty nobleman Li Cang.
She wanted to maintain the same lifestyle in the afterlife.
It was this good life she craved for that eventually robbed her of it.
Art on her funerary banner depicted her leaning on a cane.
Artwork depicting Lady Dai and her attendants on her Funeral banner.
Her last meal consisted of melons.
Lady Dais tomb was found in 1971 at an archeological site named Mawangdui near the Chinese city of Changsha.
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The Lacquer coffin inside which Lady Dais remains were found.
The body of Lady Dai now rests in the Hunan Provincial Museum, where she can still be visited.
A wax figure of Lady Dai depicting how she might have looked when younger and healthier.
