Ancient mummies

Warning: scary pictures of the long dead. Not for the timid.

Mummified 500year old tibetan monk.
Read: http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/stranger-than-fiction/self-made-mummy.html

2) Ancient chinese mummy Lady Dai (circa 145BC, Han dynasty)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-08/25/content_368631.htm

3) Takla Makan desert 3000 years old mummies
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/taklamakan.html
(Takla Makan desert is the desert which the monk and his animal disciples travelled in the chinese fable "The Monkey goes west")

4) Tarim Basin mummies.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/taklamakan.html