Medieval Siberian mummies baffle archaeologists

Archaeology News Network ^ | 4-10-2014 | Kate Baklitskaya

[madison10]

What bird? I see a cannabis plant on that medallion.

[blam]

"The researchers found by one of the adult mummies an iron combat knife, silver medallion and a bronze bird figurine. These are understood to date from the seventh to the ninth centuries."

Let me see.

These guys were buried in 1200-1300 time frame but their jewelery dates to several hundred years earlier, seventh-ninth centuries?

They're wearing antique jewelery?

[blam]

That's strange, I think this is the same story posted 11 years ago:

Siberian Graveyard's Secret (More Redheads)

"YEKATERINBURG, Russia In a medieval Siberian graveyard a few miles south of the Arctic Circle, Russian scientists have unearthed mummies roughly 1,000 years old, clad in copper masks, hoops and plates - burial rites that archaeologists say they have never seen before."

"Among 34 shallow graves were five mummies shrouded in copper and blankets of reindeer, beaver, wolverine or bear fur. Unlike the remains of Egyptian pharaohs, the scientists say, the Siberian bodies were mummified by accident. The cold, dry permafrost preserved the remains, and the copper may have helped prevent oxidation."

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/siberianmummy/index

[Ezekiel]

That’s always the exact photo that comes to my mind with these mummy-themed threads. I came in here just to see how many posts until it showed up. :)

[fishtank]

LOLOL.

Yesterday, I made SURE I saveed the URL for it ....

And guess what? We might have another Clinton in the WH.... haha sick joke.

[palmer]

and a sinking of the temperature in the 14th century

Impossible. The climate never changed until SUV's station wagons Model T's were invented. Then it zoomed up totally unprecedented.

[Larry Lucido]

How cool is THAT? Maybe, but we've advanced to aluminum foil.

[Larry Lucido]

Stupid Italians.