Effigy of the Han woman exhumed in Lianyungang.

2,000-year-old Brain Well Preserved

 

Under the personal instruction of researcher Professor Xu Yongqing of the Shanghai Corpse Antisepsis Institute, the corpse of a woman from the Han Dynasty (206BC - AD 220) was recently anatomized. The woman, 1.6 meters tall and 25.5 kilograms in weight, was exhumed in Lianyungang City.

The scientists were astonished to find that, other than a little tissue atrophy, the woman's brain was still intact after 2,000 years interment. Some cerebral sulci and convolutions were still identifiable, and its trigeminal was also well preserved. Experts commented, "This is miraculous!"

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