Picture: Kate Baklitskaya, Go East
Posted on 08/12/2015 4:01:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Five mummies were found to be shrouded in copper, while also elaborately covered in reindeer, beaver, wolverine or bear fur.
Nearby were found three copper masked infant mummies - all males. They were bound in four or five copper hoops, several centimetres wide.
Similarly, a red-haired man was found, protected from chest to foot by copper plating. In his resting place, was an iron hatchet, furs, and a head buckle made of bronze depicting a bear.
The feet of the deceased are all pointing towards the Gorny Poluy River, a fact which is seen as having religious significance. The burial rituals are unknown to experts.
Artifacts included bronze bowls originating in Persia, some 3,700 miles to the south-west, dating from the tenth or eleventh centuries. One of the burials dates to 1282, according to a study of tree rings, while others are believed to be older.
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...
Similarly, a red-haired man was found, protected from chest to foot by copper plating. In his resting place, was an iron hatchet, furs, and a head buckle made of bronze depicting a bear.
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Picture: Kate Baklitskaya, Go East
Interesting.
Where was the Daddy?
Cue Donovan in “Hail Atlantis!”
Who’s Your Daddy? might explain that.
King’s Landing
“child warrior” ... seriously reading into things
Did somebody say Mummies?!!
The hair comb over looks a little like Trumps,,,
That’s what I was thinking. More like the son of a tribal leader? King?
He obviously used Colgate Toothpaste.
I think that is much more likely
looks like he is enjoying having the last laugh.
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