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Siberian Princess reveals her 2,500 year old tattoos
Siberian Times ^ | 8-14-2012

Posted on 08/16/2012 8:42:37 AM PDT by Renfield

The ancient mummy of a mysterious young woman, known as the Ukok Princess, is finally returning home to the Altai Republic this month.

She is to be kept in a special mausoleum at the Republican National Museum in capital Gorno-Altaisk, where eventually she will be displayed in a glass sarcophagus to tourists.

For the past 19 years, since her discovery, she was kept mainly at a scientific institute in Novosibirsk, apart from a period in Moscow when her remains were treated by the same scientists who preserve the body of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin.

To mark the move 'home', The Siberian Times has obtained intricate drawings of her remarkable tattoos, and those of two men, possibly warriors, buried near her on the remote Ukok Plateau, now a UNESCO world cultural and natural heritage site, some 2,500 metres up in the Altai Mountains in a border region close to frontiers of Russia with Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.

They are all believed to be Pazyryk people - a nomadic people described in the 5th century BC by the Greek historian Herodotus - and the colourful body artwork is seen as the best preserved and most elaborate ancient tattoos anywhere in the world.....

(Excerpt) Read more at siberiantimes.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; anthropology; archaeology; godsgravesglyphs; mummies; mummy; pazyryk; pazyrykculture; siberia; siberianmummy; tattoo; tattoomummies; tattoos; ukokprincess
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To: a fool in paradise

I think Helen Thomas was there with her.


21 posted on 08/17/2012 12:34:23 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Renfield

Interesting cultural aside, the warrior found with her had his pectorals tattooed. Her breast area is free of tattoos. I wonder if the western view of the female breast as sexual is 2500 years old or older and not a “modern” invention imposed by religious prudes per our liberal overlords?


22 posted on 08/18/2012 3:17:55 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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