A 4,000-year-old "Sleeping Beauty" was unearthed in Xinjiang, with skin that can be broken by a blow. What's the secret?
In the development of human civilization in our country for thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years, countless historical relics have been left for us. Some relatively well-preserved ancient corpses have been unearthed, including some famous female corpses, such as the Mawangdui Female Corpse, the Ming Dynasty Incorruptible Female Corpse, the Qing Dynasty Incorruptible Female Corpse, the Loulan Female Corpse, and so on. When it comes to the long history and the freshness of the corpse when it was unearthed, the Loulan female corpse definitely ranks first. Loulan female corpse, also known as "Xinjiang Sleeping Beauty", has a history of more than 3,800 years. When she was found, her eyes were slightly closed, her skin was smooth, and she was wearing a beautiful felt hat on her golden hair. This She looks like a sleeping princess. Many people expressed their confusion as to why the female body of Loulan could be preserved so well in such a harsh environment in Lop Nur. In fact, it is precisely because the weather in Lop Nur is too dry, windy and sandy, and the temperature is high that there is a chance to preserve the Loulan female corpse so fortunately. The Loulan female body was first discovered by a group of foreigners in 1934 near the Lankum River in Lop Nur. This group of people originally wanted to find the legendary "Thousand Coffins Cemetery" in the local area, but accidentally got lost and discovered an ancient relic on a small hill. There are broken mud walls, broken wood, dead trees, bones, and some boat-shaped coffins. This made this group of people very excited. When they opened a ship's coffin, they found a corpse inside. The cloth wrapping the corpse was almost rotten and broke when touched, but they could still find that it was a female corpse.
When they gently pulled away the rotten cloth on the face of the female corpse, what appeared in front of these foreigners was a lifelike woman with a complete face, smooth and elastic skin, and even a peaceful smile. Beautiful woman. Unfortunately, as soon as it saw the air, the female corpse immediately lost its luster. Although it was still well preserved, it could only be regarded as a wet corpse.
The group of people were so frightened that they hurriedly took a few photos and left without doing any very detailed archaeological research. It was many years before our country's archaeologists heard the news and hurriedly spent countless hours to find this ruins. After a series of excavations and explorations, archaeologists discovered that there are many more corpses like the Loulan female corpse in this ruins, and most of them are very well-preserved female corpses. Most of them were stripped of their clothes after death, wrapped in a blanket, and then wrapped in thick sheepskin, or buried in hollow tree trunks, or buried in boat coffins.
These incorruptible corpses are wearing leather boots on both feet and fur felt hats on their heads. The female corpses are decorated with feathers and other decorations, while the male corpses are equipped with tools such as whips. However, the integrity of these things is relatively poor, and almost all of them break when touched. But why can't dead objects without moisture be preserved, but these highly decayable corpses are unexpectedly so intact? This is due to the geographical environment and climate of Xinjiang.
Most places in Xinjiang are deserts. The sunshine lasts for more than ten hours a day. The sun is strong and the temperature is very high during the day. The wind and sand are also strong at night, and the temperature drops sharply. In this kind of climate environment, which is either extremely cold or extremely hot, and severely lacks water, the air is very dry. Moreover, these corpses were either buried in trees or boats, and some were buried in very shallow places, covered only with a layer of yellow sand of a few tens of centimeters. Since there were not many rains in a year, When the sun shines, there is nothing left. In the case of high temperature, lack of water, and dryness, bacteria cannot survive, so the corpse can be preserved so well.
And because Lop Nur is too mysterious and dangerous, and the environment in Xinjiang as a whole is also very harsh, only a small part of the ancient ruins that have been excavated are actually insignificant. It is difficult for us to guarantee that in the future, when technology is more developed and conditions are more perfect, we will not dig out more mysterious and amazing things. At that time, we may not be interested in a four-thousand-year-old "Sleeping Beauty". Why do you act too concerned about not being rotten.