Chinese archaeologists had excavated a 2,500-year-old tomb containing 47 coffins made of a kind of rare wood called nanmu in Lijia village in Jing'an county, east China's Jiangxi Province. The tomb, which is 16 meters long, about 11.5 meters wide and 3 meters deep and believed to date back to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770 B.C.-221 B.C.), is the largest group of coffins ever discovered in a single one.
On the excavation site, scientists had found a relatively complete human skeleton, bodily tissue, as well as many bronze, gold and silk items, porcelain and jade.
The bodily tissue has been identified as the brain of the dead in the coffin. The tissue has shrunk to the size of a fist, but it has complete brain structure with two cerebral hemisphere, cerebel, and brainstem.
The graves of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty are the most important archaeology discovery of 2007 in China, so important that the State Administration of Cultural Heritage has ranked it as the nation's top ranking archaeological project.
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