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For thousands of years, people have tried to stop the human body from deteriorating after death - using different methods. What they all seem to have in common is the idea that the existence of the body ensures life after death. Whether in ancient Egypt, Central or South America or Russia - mummies can be found everywhere. For the pharaohs, preserving the body was a basic requirement for life in the afterlife. They perfected the art of mummification over three thousand years. The mummy that still raises the most questions today is that of the Chinese Lady Dai. What is special about this mummy is that blood was found in her veins thousands of years after the death of the Marquise, who died in the 2nd century BC. Much younger, but just as fraught with questions, is the mummy of a Buddhist monk in Russia. According to his fellow believers, Hambo Lama Dashi-Dorsho Itigelow is still alive almost 100 years after his death. When Itigelow died in 1927, he was buried in a cedar box covered in salt, squatting in the lotus position. During an exhumation in 2002, a researcher found that the body was in a condition as if it had died only a few hours ago. The so-called white mummies from Nazca, which were found near the world-famous Nazca Lines in Peru, are also shrouded in mystery. This video is a ZDF production in collaboration with Peter Prestel Filmproduktion. Subscribe? Just click here – / @terraxhistory All films and information about Terra X can be found here – https://terra-x.zdf.de/#xtor=CS3-82 Terra X on Facebook – / zdfterrax Terra X on Instagram – / terrax