Female Corpse of Western Han Dynasty
Unearthed at Han tomb no.1,Mawangdui,Changsha,Hunan Province,in 1972.H:1.54m,wt:34.3kg.Xinzhui,wife of Marquess Dai,Prime Minister of the Changsha state in the early 2nd century B.C.When disinterred, the cadaver was bound with 9 silk bands and wore 20 1ayers of clothes.Its skin was brown.and its external periphery and viscera were intact.Pathological examination revealed that the woman died of a coronary attack as a sequel of biliary colic at the age of about 50.