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Xin Zhui (Chinese: 辛追; [ɕín ʈʂwéɪ]; c. 217 BC –169 or 168 BC), also known as Lady Dai or the Marquise of Dai, was a Chinese noblewoman. She was the wife of Li Cang ( 利蒼 ), the Marquis of Dai, and Chancellor of the Changsha Kingdom , during the Western Han dynasty of ancient China.
Western Han painting on silk was found draped over the coffin in the grave of Lady Dai (c. 168 BC) at Mawangdui near Changsha in Hunan province. An early Western-Han silk map found in Tomb 3 of Mawangdui, depicting the Kingdom of Changsha and Kingdom of Nanyue in southern China (note: the south direction is oriented at the top).
Lady Rai (c. 1570/1560 BC – 1530 BC) was an ancient Egyptian woman of the early 18th Dynasty who served as nursemaid to Queen Ahmose-Nefertari (1562–1495 BC). [1] Her mummified remains were discovered in a Theban tomb in 1881 and it is estimated that she was about 30–40 years old when she died around 1530 BC. [ 2 ]
The "extraordinary" tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian woman has been found 4,000 years after her death. On Oct. 2, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, announced on Facebook that the ...
Lady Qi (祁夫人, fl. 316–324), also known as Lady Wei (惟氏), was the wife of Tuoba Yituo and a regent of Dai in the Sixteen Kingdoms period during the minority of her son between 321 and 324. As the rulers of Dai were posthumously honoured as emperors during the Northern Wei , she is also referred to as Empress Dowager Qi (皇后祁) or ...
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo retained only a few objects from the tomb, keeping one of the two lamp stands, loaves of bread, three blocks of salt, and nineteen pottery vases. [42] Maspero's reasons for allowing nearly the entire contents of this intact tomb to leave Egypt are unknown. Maspero was a friend and former mentor of Schiaparelli.
The Princess of Xiaohe (Chinese: 小河公主) or Little River Princess was found in 2003 at Xiaohe Cemetery in Lop Nur, Xinjiang.She is one of the Tarim mummies, and is known as M11 for the tomb she was found in. Buried approximately 3,800 years ago, she has European and Siberian genes [1] [2] and has white skin and red hair.
The Younger Lady is the informal name given to an ancient Egyptian mummy discovered within tomb KV35 in the Valley of the Kings by archaeologist Victor Loret in 1898. [1] The mummy also has been given the designation KV35YL ("YL" for "Younger Lady") and 61072, and currently resides in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .