Mysterious mummies in Vietnam

Behind the sleep of thousands of years of mummies are the great mysteries that people cannot discover. In Vietnam, many ancient tombs have been discovered, revealing unique secrets of embalming from ancient times.

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Dong Nai: Discovered mummies for over 200 years

A mummy with a date of over 200 years has been discovered during the excavation of Cau Xeo ancient tomb in Cau Xeo area, Long Thanh town, Long Thanh district, Dong Nai at the end of September 16, 2011.

The coffin was discovered during Cau Xeo's tomb excavation
Long Thanh and Dong Nai districts (Source: Dong Nai Newspaper)

Cau Xeo ancient tomb has closed and rectangular architecture. Tombs are made in outer areas, including: the compound surrounding 6 sides is about 50cm thick. Inside there are wooden sarcophagus and the inside is a coffin with a semicircle lid, the top is covered with cloth with wire pattern, leaf and chrysanthemum pattern. Inside the coffin, the mummy is covered with cloth and covered with lotus leaves. The excavation team brought the coffin to include a mummy to preserve at Dong Nai Museum.

According to the Vietnam News Agency, archaeologists said that based on the external information and the mummy inside the coffin, it can be confirmed that the coffin is a grandmother, or it could be an attached lady. intimate bunch with the Nguyen Dynasty.

Mummy during the Hau Le period in Nam Dinh

Earlier, on April 1, during construction of the road under the Bao Minh Industrial Project, in the field of Dau Dinh village of Cao Phuong village, Lien Bao commune, workers discovered 5 graves, among them 4 houses are modern graves that have been destroyed by termites, while the last one has a special structure.

By September 15, Nam Dinh Museum collaborated with Assoc. Dr. Nguyen Lan Cuong, Deputy Secretary General of Vietnam Archeology Society, chaired the excavation of the above tomb of mummies and on September 17, excavation work was completed.

Excavating the tomb of mummy in the post-Le Dynasty in Bao Minh industrial park,
Vu Ban, Nam Dinh (Source: People's Police)

According to the assessment, this is an ancient grave with 94.5cm long, 27.3cm wide, 33.4cm high made of honey, sand, lime and coal. Inside the coffin is a human skeleton covered over a layer of rough cloth. On the face of the mummy covered with a sheet of wind paper. The skeleton is still quite intact, especially there are still 32 teeth and 8 hairs sticking on the lower jaw and the skull under the skull. According to experts, this could be a man between 40 and 45 years old.

Public Mummy . intact like sleeping

At the end of 2007, Phuc Nga private enterprise destroyed an ancient tomb located in Trung Hung commune, Yen My district, Hung Yen province, causing much pressing in public opinion. According to the participants of the grave destruction, the above owner had to hire dozens of workers to use the hammer and crowbar, but the compound of clam shells, oysters, lime, stone powder . remained unabated. . People even had to use a boring drill for 3 days and 3 nights to pop the grave, revealing the casket covered with red paint.

According to the description, the grave of the grave is a massive compound, half a meter thick. Under the heavy lid, tens of tons is a big casket covered with red paint. When the coffin turned on the lid, the smell of fragrant oil spreaded over a large area.

Ancient coins buried in mummies at the ancient tomb in the commune
Trung Hung, Yen My district, Hung Yen province (Source: Dat Viet newspaper)

In the casket is a corpse's corpse, about 1.60m high. Everyone was startled to see that the body remains intact like a newly buried person, beard, hair, eyebrows were still intact. Chestnut skin is still soft and ruddy. The corpse is wrapped with a lot of clothes, blankets, pillows and legs that go up to knee-high ones as if they were new. The body was submerged in a brown, special oil tank. Everyone looked panicked, but the thought in the coffin had many gold, jewels, antiques, so the fear disappeared. People competed in different places, using knives and scissors to cut off the body's clothes to find jewels.

The burial clothes in the grave include clothes, blankets, comedies and hundreds of ancient coins . divided by grave-breakers and scattered everywhere.

Local people have no record of this ancient tomb. People only heard the word of mouth, this is the ancient tomb of a Duke of the late Le Dynasty.

After that, Mr. Quan's body was brought to a field about 3km away to be buried in a circular grave built by this business owner. However, the tomb of a tomb built to contain the remains of the corpse was still intact, so the people who took part in the burial had heartlessly bent the foot of Mr. District's corpse, bent his arms, bent his head down to fit it into the hole. Land filling.

The public has been very dissatisfied because of the reason that the authorities have let the group of people blatantly carry mines to fight even the tombs. And most heartbreaking is the ancient tomb of a few hundred years old with a mummy of a public district, which has not been studied yet, has been dug and destroyed by people.

Aromatherapy mummy in Nhat Tan peach garden

This ancient tomb was also attacked by a group of people who deliberately broke the lid and closed the lid when there was no opinion of the competent authority. The ancient tomb was discovered at the end of April 2005.

Ancient tomb structure in the peach garden consists of three layers. The outer layer of 1.5cm thick compound is made of mortar, bile, sticky rice, mixed paper. Next is the wooden cork covering the coffin, 9cm thick. The golden coffin is 10cm thick. The mummy inside the coffin was a man about 60 years old, intact, wrapped in layers of cloth and aromatic oil. The mummy has been revealed by grave digger before the intervention of archaeologists.

The objects in the grave include: head pillow, pillow insert, double hia embroidery, 4 silk vests, 10 brocades, 9 shrouds, two cloth bags (containing artifacts that can be betel nuts or herbs). The artifacts show that this is a rich man, lived in the late 18th century. The identity of the mummy is not determined. The mummy was shrouded, put into a coffin and buried in Nhat Tan cemetery on May 7, 2005.

Ancient grave in Yen My district, Hung Yen and ancient tombs in Nhat Tan peach garden, Hanoi are two of many ancient tombs that have been devastated by humans. Just because of their mercy, these groups of people have mercilessly trampled on cultural values ​​for the purpose of finding gold, jewels . in ancient tombs. Besides, the ancient tomb which was unearthed in Nam Dinh also had to dry in the sun and sun for 5 months because it was impossible to "liberate the ground" for excavation. Public opinion said that the functional departments need to take a more serious look at the problem of exploring and preserving the cultural values ​​of the ancient Vietnamese.