Sunday, March 1, 2015

1,000 year old mummified monk


What I read about this week really grabbed my attention. The article that I read about was that there was a 1,000-year-old mummified monk that was hidden in a statue of a Buddha. I found this so interesting because not only did the body in the statue fit the shape perfectly, but also it was also taken from a temple in china to the Netherlands and then kept a secret for that long. The researchers and scientists that did all of the scans on the mummy found out that he was still in all of the cloth and found his name, Liuqan, and all of his information including that he was practicing a position for life after death. The scientists are figuring out the exact location in China where the statue was placed and mummified. The statue is now in a museum in Budapest but will be put on an international tour at different museums.  

Paul Rollet 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/asia/mummified-monk-statue/index.html

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