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The 2,000-Year-Old Woman Whose Skin Is Still Soft

This woman has been dead for more than two thousand years. And her skin is still soft. In the early 1970s, workers digging an air-raid shelter near Changsha, in southern China, broke through into a sealed tomb.

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