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Thread: 2,500-year-old Textiles Discovered by Chinese Archaeologists
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[quote=LIONPOWER,241503]Seven of the coffins contained human skeletons, four of which were identified as healthy females aged around 20, said Wei Dong, an archaeologist from northeast China's Jilin University. Wei and other members of the research team assumed that the four young women were virgins who had been buried alive alongside a dead aristocrat. This form of ritual sacrifice was a centuries-old custom in ancient China.[/quote]
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