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When it comes to ancient tombs, many people think that the bodies in the tombs should be several skeletons. But in fact, some non-decomposing corpses have been unearthed in the tombs, and these non-decomposing corpses are very valuable for research. The most common of these is dry corpses, which do not decay because the water in their bodies has been exhausted, and there is no environment for any bacteria to breed, so there is no condition for decay.
But the formation of dry corpses requires very special climatic conditions, especially in dry or airless places, it is difficult for bacteria to survive, so the corpses will quickly dehydrate and become "dry corpses". Since there is no widespread epidemic in most countries in the world to perform large-scale embalming of corpses, such corpses are very rare.
In the 90s of last century, Hubei Jingzhou City, an old farmer as usual in their own field work, suddenly found a deep hole, due to curiosity, this old farmer will look into the cave, vaguely can also see sporadic iron knots at the mouth of the cave, the old farmer instinctively feel that this hole is not simple, because Hubei is known as the "land of Jingchu", here since ancient times is the field is rich in fertility, the long history to this land left a lot of precious historical monuments. At present, the excavated tombs include the tomb of the Ming Chu King, the Ming Tomb, the Tomb of the Liao King, etc., among which the tomb of Zeng Houyi shows the level of iron smelting and casting in that era. He instinctively reported to the local heritage department.
Archaeologists rushed to the scene, and after some careful investigation, in addition to finding a female dry body in the tomb, precious cultural relics were basically looted. But there are still some fallen pieces of silk next to the dry corpse, it is obvious that the tomb robbers who wear the funers on this female corpse have not let go, looking at this dry corpse, the archaeologists present are furious and call the tomb robbers too hateful.
After carefully studying a large number of materials, experts deduced that this ancient tomb was a style of the tomb of the nobles of the Chu state during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Experts later examined the female corpse and found that it was at least 2,400 years old. Although the female corpse was dry, there was no sign of decay, but it was scaled by the tomb robbers, and there were marks of sharp weapons in many places.
Tomb robbers not only stole the cultural relics in the tomb, but even the corpses were not spared, since ancient times, China has had the concept of "the dead are big, and the soil is safe"! These grave robbers did not understand even the minimum respect for the dead, and it was no wonder that the experts were so angry