A nigh 1,000 - year - old statue has left China for the first clock time and the Meander Medical Center in the Netherlands thought they ’d melt down it through a CT image scanner , as you do . They confirm that the statue holds the mummified remains of a mankind , while also come up some challenging insight into the mummification mental process .
To inexpert eyes , the statue take care like it is of the Buddha , but it lacks most of thedistinctivefeaturesthat artist use to describe Gautama Buddha . investigator believe the dead body inside is that of Buddhistic master Liuquan , a practician of the Chinese Meditation School who lived around 1100 AD .
mention : Jan van Esch / Meander Medical Center . Not the idealistic posture for CT scans .
Besides the usage of the scanner , the hospital had GI specialist Dr. Raynald Vermeijden take samples of material from the thoracic and abdominal bodily cavity . In position where organs once were , the team found paper scrap print with yet to be deciphered ancient Formosan persona . It is unclear what persona the paper played in the mummification process .
The statue was study after being displayed at theDrents Museumas part of anexhibition of mummiesrevealing the similarity and differences in mummification summons from around the world . It is currently on showing at the Hungarian Natural History Museum . Not only is this the first time this particular statue has left China , but it is also the only Chinese Buddhist mummy useable for scientific research in the West , the Center claims .
Credit : Jan van Esch / Meander Medical Center . No want to seem so queasy - he ’s been dead for 1,000 years .
There is speculation that Liuquan engage in the practice ofself - mummification , a ghastly mental process where Thelonious Monk from sure custom make themselves to not crumble after last through a compounding of dieting and economic consumption of venomous herbaceous plant and embalm fluid . This has yet to be confirm , however .
reference : Jan van Esch / Meander Medical Center . Exploring ancient corpses does not always take the best view .
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