What's the secret that the found body won't rot?

The summer in jutland is cool and pleasant, and a rain in the morning brings a little chill to the forest in the Torund Valley in the middle of the peninsula. Van Gogh and Hefferny are a young couple on vacation. They set up a tent in the Woods, and a white Mercedes-Benz car was parked next to it.

The forest is particularly quiet after the rain, and young people are intoxicated by this quiet atmosphere. There are some unknown birds singing in the distance from time to time. There was a swamp on the edge of the forest. Van Gogh took a shotgun to the junction of the forest and the swamp, ready to collect some game. There are many kinds of birds and animals in the mountains, so Van Gogh did not worry about catching game and walked without scruple. Suddenly, Van Gogh found a man lying in the swamp. He watched carefully, this is a naked man, half of his body is buried in the mud. ...

After receiving the report, the local police immediately rushed to the scene. The police carefully investigated the scene, and the deceased looked as if he had just died, with a short beard on his cheek. They agreed that they had met a murder case that happened not long ago. The murderer seems to hang the dead person cruelly, then transport it here and throw it into the swamp in a hurry. The police station used a lot of manpower and material resources and hired experienced detectives to solve the case. Because there was almost no trace of the murderer at the scene, the case was particularly confusing, and even the identity of the deceased could not be known, because there was no similar disappearance at that time. The preliminary forensic examination found nothing suspicious. This case happened in the 1950s, and once became a local "strange case".

Soon, a talented forensic doctor re-identified the victim's hair, and the result was surprising. The body turned out to be an ancient corpse left over from the early iron age. People can't help but ask, is this possible? A found body can be preserved for so long and is as good as new.

In fact, in recent years, well-preserved ancient bodies and mummies have been found all over the world. During the excavation of ancient tombs in our country, many lifeless but uncorrupted ancient bodies have been unearthed, such as the female corpse of Loulan, Xinjiang. The corpse found in Guangxi has a strange smell when it is opened; Bodies found in Hunan and other places in the Han Dynasty have elastic skin and look like living people.

How can a found body not rot? This should start with the production of found bodies. After the king died, the ancient Egyptians mummified his body to keep it intact. They took out the internal organs of the body and even made an incision on the top of the head to take out the brain marrow from the skull. Then special spices are added as preservatives to prevent the corpse from rotting.

In the Royal Museum of Ontario, Canada, there is an elaborate mummy. This is an exquisite template, wrapped in fine linen impregnated with adhesive, and inside the template is a well-preserved ancient Egyptian woman.

In order to check whether the mummy with a beautiful shell has rotted or not, and also to see what remains buried in the shell, the scientists of the museum used CT perspective scanning to take layered continuous photography, and also measured a lot of data with a computer. According to the structure of fibrous tissue and bones shown by scanning, it is speculated that this mummy was a strong girl of about twenty years old before her death, and it has existed for 2700 years and still has no corruption. An incision was found on the left side of her abdomen, covered with a rectangular cloth. It is estimated that when this mummy was made, the internal organs were pulled out from this incision, coated with spices and then put back into the body cavity.

Preservative spices play an important role in preserving corpses. The corpse found at the beginning of this paper is due to the high acid content and iron content in the water in the peat swamp where it is located. This may be because the found corpse is not corrupt and has become a natural "tanned corpse". In addition, peat soil has become a natural preservative, and it is isolated from the air most of the time because of the cold climate. Therefore, the skin of the corpse found is flexible and the joints are active, so it is easy to be mistaken for a "present corpse".

The body discovered thousands of years ago is so well preserved, not only because of the function of antiseptic spices, but also because of external environmental factors. Most uncorrupted corpses are found, and mummies must be isolated from air and moisture to be well preserved. Mawangdui Han Tomb in Hunan, China is almost a vacuum tomb. The body was buried in a coffin coated with as many as six layers of wooden boards, surrounded by white paste mud with strong viscosity and density, and charcoal with strong hygroscopicity, which highly isolated the corrosion of air and water on the body. Moreover, after the tomb was sealed, the damage of external light, temperature and humidity to the body was completely eliminated, so that the body could be "permanently" preserved.

Why on earth won't a found body rot? Why is it so well preserved? In the era of barbarism and lack of medical care and medicine, how did ancient people get antiseptic spices? In ancient times when science was underdeveloped, how did they know that the preservation of corpses needed to be isolated from air and water? Do they know that bacteria will rot the body? If so, the microbial theory discovered by Pasteur can be traced back to ancient times! In addition, what method did the builders of Mawangdui Han Tomb use to build the tomb into a nearly vacuum room, and the vacuum machine was not invented until modern times.

Scientists are still trying to explore these mysteries, and it is still difficult for such advanced technology to uncover the secrets of immortality that have been discovered. How did the ancients master the mystery? Preservatives alone have quite a few complicated problems. Needless to say, these preservatives have undergone great changes, and when they are excavated, they are "not what they used to be", and a series of changes will take place in both substance content and substance properties. These changes really prevent us from uncovering the mystery of the immortality of the body that has been discovered. There is no end to scientific research. With the rapid development of science and technology, I believe that many discovered body mysteries will be uncovered one day.