An exquisitely preserved skeleton of a woman dubbed the "Grand Lady" has been discovered in a water-filled coffin within a tomb at Tieguai Village in China. The coffin dates back 900 years.
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The Grand Lady was buried with a vast number of grave goods, including many small replicas of real-life objects called "minqi" in Chinese. One of the most striking is a well-preserved model house that has a courtyard as well as "three rooms, with a large span between the central bay and smaller secondary rooms," the archaeologists wrote.
Other interesting discoveries within the Grand Lady's tomb include 10 female figurines depicted wearing masks and playing musical instruments, the archaeologists wrote.
Another tomb found next to the Grand Lady's was heavily looted, and few artifacts were found within it. That tomb could belong to a family member of the Grand Lady, the archaeologists said.
Both tombs were excavated between June and September 2014 by a team of archaeologists from the Nanling County Cultural Relics Administration and Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. An article on the discovery was published in Chinese, in 2016, in the journal Wenwu and was recently translated into English and published in the Chinese Cultural Relicsjournal.