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The article offers information on the dead body of Lady Li, who apparently died because of heart attack at the age of 50 some 2, 100 years ago, was discovered at the Chinese city of Changsa. Her body was best preserved and was uncovered by Chinese archeologists, thus determined that she lived during early Western Han Dynasty from 206 B.C. to A.D. 24. Her body was silk-wrapped and had been placed in an airtight coffin surrounded by a layer of white clay and buried more than 60 feet of earth. Lady Li's body was preserved and that her flesh was not dried, her hair was well anchored in the scalp, and the joints still flexible. Information includes that she had a type A blood, she had tuberculosis because of the spots in her left lung, and her coronary arteries were blocked by atherosclerosis.