17. A 700-Year-Old Mummy
In 2011, a working crew found a well-preserved mummy in what they described as a “brown liquid” underneath a modern road in China, in the city of Taizhou, in the Jiangsu Province. The mummy, a five-foot woman, is believed to be a member of the Ming Dynasty and was dressed in silk finery with robes, slippers, and jewelry, with her hair and eyebrows still intact. The director of the Taizhou Museum, Wang Weiyin, estimated her preservation period to be about 700 years old, and she is currently on display at the museum.
