Rare green crystals found in 2,500-year-old tomb Archaeologists exploring a 2,500-year-old tomb in east China's Jiangxi Province that contained 47 coffins in a remarkable state of preservation were stunned to discover several pieces of green crystal lodged in the bones of the skeletons in the coffins. One of the diamond-shaped crystals was 8.5 centimeters long. The coffins also contained bronze, gold, silk, porcelain and jade items and even body tissue. Archaeologists said the crystals appeared to have "grown" in the bones. They pointed out that the coffins were made from halved nanmu, a rare and extremely durable wood, and covered in white plaster and a layer of loess. The fact that the coffins were fire-heated to make them waterproof and airtight may be a factor in the creation of the crystals. Classically, crystals are formed when rocks are heated and then cool slowly over time. Archaeologists said there were no previous records of green-colored crystals being found in tombs and said they would help scientists understand changes to the human body in different conditions.
Archaeologists really knows how to disturb someone peace XD. Interesting that crystals can be grown inside a bone though.
^ booger isn't a type of bone/rock. but a mucus membrane. so i presume that a "booger" wouldn't become a crystal over any significant amount of time. i guess this isn't that surprising. we can make our ashes into diamonds; why not make our bones in crystals? but the color "green" in the crystal is interesting. i wonder why it is "green"?
Damn these archaeologists really like to dig up tombs disturb the peace and then put the dead in storage facilities. Green crystals..krytonite maybe? So superman does exist.
Pshhh who told you he didn't. He's actually that guy with the big thick glass who's delivering pizza to your house right now.
talk about final resting place. slept for 2500 yrs and woken up. and one wonders why the afterlife is back to haunt them! @Knoctur: are you inviting FBI to your home with that avatar? hehe ...
archaelogist is becoming so annoying these days they keep digging up the dead and do some x rays and crap...and also when they want fame they just make up some random bullshit to prove some theories.
Like, they're going to start digging up all these other tombs just to find the crystals! And then the mummies will come after them. Oh what have they brought upon us! ...... -blush
