When they lifted the nameless slab, several more heavy slabs were found underneath it (two were cast from metal). The emperor rested in four coffins, enclosed within each other. This is how the British guarded him after his death... Finally they opened the last coffin. In decayed clothes, covered with a decayed blue cloak with silver embroidery (he wore it under Marengo), the emperor lay completely... alive. He was mysteriously untouched by decay!