Speaking of the thousand-year-old immortal female corpse, many people first think of Mrs. Xin Chai excavated from the tomb of Mawangdui Han in Hunan, which was the first time that China's archaeology found endless female corpses, and the secrets surrounding Xin Chai's body have not yet been solved, and China's archaeology has found other endless female corpses. At the end of the 1980s, the Institute of Archaeology of the Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences formed an expedition to investigate the hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert, the world's second largest desert, and it was during this expedition that archaeologists found a dry corpse. This dry corpse is the oldest and best-preserved female dry corpse in China, which is another major discovery after the two immortal wet corpses of Xin Chai and Ling Huiping, and experts named it "Loulan Beauty".
The mysterious disappearance of the ancient country of Loulan
Loulan is a famous ancient country that has appeared in history, on the northwest bank of Lop Nur in Xinjiang, China, in history, here was once very prosperous, for the Silk Road to rush. Because of its age, we know very little about the history of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, and the first appearance was in Sima Qian's "Records of History", around the time of the 3rd century BC, the Loulan people established the country, but because of the various historical disputes, there were many disasters and difficulties here. About 1600 years ago, the ancient country of Loulan mysteriously disappeared into history, leaving only a few words of records, and many people entered the desert to search tirelessly in order to explore the mysterious face of this ancient country.
The mystery of Lou Lan's body
There are also many explorers who have disappeared into the desert, knowing that in the 1930s, Western explorers like the world said that he found a "smiling princess" in the hinterland of Central Asia, and countless explorers have flocked to it since then. In the mid-1950s, Chinese scholars also investigated and studied here, and this ancient city, which was stunning in history and mysteriously disappeared, was finally re-revealed in front of the eyes of the world, but at this time, only a ruin remained. To this day, why the ancient country of Loulan disappeared into history is still a mystery, and no one can give a clear answer.
Accidental discovery of "Lou Lan Beauty"
The discovery of "Loulan Beauty" shocked the world, this sentence found in Xinjiang more than 4,000 years of "female corpse", not only the hair is well preserved, even the facial features are very clear, it looks like she is a short sleep. The corpse was wearing coarse wool fabric and sheepskin, a pair of fur boots on the feet, and hair was more than a foot away. The most surprising thing is that after four thousand years, the skin on her body is still elastic, the eyes are large, the eye sockets are deep, the bridge of the nose is high and narrow, and it can be seen that she was a beauty when she was young. Beautiful heavenly immortals, there is no record of only a few words, but after death, she has left so much room for people to reverie, she is a mystery, but think about it, Lou Lan itself is a mystery.
Dna identification surprised lin people
In archaeological history, such well-preserved female corpses are very rare, and experts have cried out after extracting the DNA identification of "Loulan Beauty". According to the scientific measurement results, when this woman died again, she was about forty-five years old, her height before she was born was 1.55 meters, and her current weight was about twenty pounds, and even the blood type was identified as O type. From the various characteristics presented by the appearance of the female corpse, as well as the various tests of experts, experts believe that she has distinct Characteristics of the Europa race. Experts shouted that it was because dna had been extracted for identification, and still did not understand why the female corpse could sleep for more than four thousand years and remain immortal.
Later, experts found a lot of lice and bed bugs on the body of the female corpse, according to normal phenomena, after death, the body will quickly become cold, and the parasites living in the human body will leave the corpse because of the loss of temperature. So why have the female corpses been dead for more than four thousand years, and still have a large number of lice and insect eggs on their bodies? Experts speculate that this may be because in the extreme environment, after the death of loulan beauty, the water in the body evaporates rapidly, and the temperature difference in the desert area is large, and the lice live here. To this day, this Loulan beauty also provides a very important basis for the study of parasites in China. Following this speculation, people can't help but wonder if the ancient country of Loulan also disappeared into history because of such an extreme environment? The answer to this is still up to people to continue to explore.