Beyond 5000 on Instagram: "In 1971, workers digging an air-raid shelter near Changsha, China made one of the most astonishing archaeological finds of the 20th century, the tomb of Xin Zhui, better known as Lady Dai of the Western Han Dynasty. Lady Dai’s body, buried over 2,100 years ago, was found in a state so perfectly preserved that her skin was still soft and elastic, her joints flexible, hair and eyelashes intact, and even blood remained in her veins, conditions comparable to a recently dec

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