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The Siberian Ice Maiden, known locally as the Altai Princess (Russian: Алтайская принцесса), the Princess of Ukok (Russian: Принце́сса Уко́ка), Devochka ("Girl") and Ochy-bala (Russian: Очы-бала, the heroine of the Altaic epic), is a mummy of a woman from the 5th century BC, discovered in 1993 in a kurgan belonging to one of the Pazyryk burials, from ...
Siberian Ice Maiden mummy - 5th century BCE. In 1993, Polosmak was conducting archaeological reconnaissance of the high and barren Ukok Plateau when she discovered a spectacular archaeological find; a female mummy frozen in permafrost which she associated with the Pazyryk on the basis of intact clothing remaining on the well-preserved corpse. [1]
Reconstruction of the tomb chamber of the Siberian Ice Maiden, in the Anokhin Museum. Sacrifical horses are visible to the left, while the princess lies in a wooden sarcophagus. [45] The maiden's well-preserved body, carefully embalmed with peat and bark, was arranged to lie on her side as if asleep.
The Pazyryk culture (Russian: Пазырыкская культура Pazyrykskaya kul'tura) is a Saka (Central Asian Scythian) [1] nomadic Iron Age archaeological culture (6th to 3rd centuries BC) identified by excavated artifacts and mummified humans found in the Siberian permafrost, in the Altay Mountains, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
This week, see the face of the 500-year-old “Ice Maiden,” uncover the unlikely secret of starfish, spy glowing cosmic clouds, and more.
In one of the planet's coldest places, 130 km south of Russia's Arctic coast, scientist Sergey Zimov can find no sign of permafrost as global warming permeates Siberia's soil. As everything from ...
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Another of her nicknames, Ice Maiden, derives from the cold conditions and freezing temperatures that preserved her body on Mount Ampato. [ citation needed ] Juanita has been on display in the Catholic University of Santa María 's Museum of Andean Sanctuaries (Museo Santuarios Andinos) in Arequipa, Peru almost continuously since 1996, and was ...