Pazyryk burials - Wikipedia
The most famous undisturbed Pazyryk burial so far recovered is the Ice Maiden or "Altai Lady" found by archaeologist Natalia Polosmak in 1993 at Ukok, near the Chinese border. The find was a rare example of a single woman given a full ceremonial burial in a wooden chamber tomb in the fifth century BCE, accompanied by six horses. [6]
Siberian Ice Maiden - Wikipedia
The Siberian Ice Maiden, known locally as the Princess of Ukok (Russian: Принце́сса Уко́ка), the Altai Princess (Russian: Алтайская принцесса), Devochka ("Girl") and Ochy-bala (Russian: Очы-бала, the heroine of the Altaic epic), is a mummy of a …
Pazyryk culture - Wikipedia
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.
Scythians, ice mummies and burial mounds | British Museum
2017年8月23日 · The Scythians took great care to prepare the dead and practised a form of mummification. The best evidence for this comes from burial mound sites like Pazyryk in the high Altai mountain region of southern Siberia. In this region the winter snow and rain percolated into the tomb chambers below the larger burials.
The Ice Maiden: Who was the Frozen “Princess” of Ukok?
2021年11月24日 · In 1993, Russian archaeologist Natalya Polosmak and her team excavated an ancient tomb at the Ukok Plateau, located in the Altai Mountains near Russia’s border with China. What they had found was a tomb embedded in ice. As the archaeologists melted the ice, it became clear that they had found the burial of a person of some status.
Monumental tombs of the Xiongnu elite have been documented numerous times at several sites in the core area of Xiongnu sites throughout Mongolia and South Siberia (Rudenko 1969; Konovalov 1976; Navaan 1999; Mission 2003; Miller et al. 2006; Miniaev and Sakharovskaia 2006, 2007), but the existence of a similar royal cemetery at Tahiltin-hotgor si...
2,500-year-old 'Siberian Ice Maiden' Mummy Has Distinct
2023年10月2日 · The Siberian Ice Maiden is a well-known mummy discovered in 1993 in the Republic of Altai, Russia. She is believed to have been a Siberian belonging to the...
State Hermitage Museum :: Southern Siberia/Pazyryk - UW …
2007年5月10日 · The selection here is artifacts from the early nomadic cultures of Southern Siberia. The focus is on the objects excavated beginning in the 1920s from the graves in the Pazyryk region of the Altai Mountains, where the frozen …
Golden Mountains of Altai - New World Encyclopedia
The Golden Mountains of Altai is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Siberia, in the Russian territory of the Altai Republic. Established in 1998, there are three separate areas: Altaisky Zapovednik and a buffer zone around Lake Teletskoye; Katunsky Zapovednik and a buffer zone around Mount Belukha; and the Ukok Quiet Zone on the Ukok plateau.
Results of repeated study of the frozen tomb of the Fifth Pazyryk ...
2022年12月1日 · The Pazyryk burial ground in the Altai is known for the “tsar” tombs containing wonderful sets of grave goods made of various organic materials (wood, horn, felt, fur, leather and textile) as well as human mummies and even frozen horse corpses that were well-preserved due to the permafrost conditions in the mounds for about 2.5 thousand ...