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New Altai frozen tomb discovery

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Bede
Two of my friends separately found references to a Scythian frozen tomb in the Altai mountains on the Mongolian side of the border. The news is reported on the Der Spiegal website. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/interna ... 00,00.html

There are several photos and the tomb was described as being intact.
Godehardt

Bede wrote:

Two of my friends separately found references to a Scythian frozen tomb in the Altai mountains on the Mongolian side of the border. The news is reported on the Der Spiegal website. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/interna ... 00,00.html

There are several photos and the tomb was described as being intact.

In this kurgan, they also found a gorytos together with arrows and a bow, as H. Parzinger (one of the heads of the excavation team) told me. He promised me to send me information on that equipment so that a reconstruction could be made.
jack farrell
Did anyone see the television program about the Amazon woman warrior found in a kurgan in a similar area of Russia? She was buried with gold jewelery, weapons and an alabaster jar from Egypt.

DNA was sucessfully extracted from her bones (in Germany) and a likeness of her face reconstructed by a forensic laboratory, also in Germany.

A search of Kazakh tribeswomen in Mongolia produced a direct blood relative, a young red-haired girl of that group, through a DNA match.

I do not know the year of the find. -j-
jonR
Jack,
I saw that a couple of years ago. It was part of a series called The Ice Maidens I think. I do believe I have a tape of it somewhere.
jonR.
Szabi Nagy

jack farrell wrote:

Did anyone see the television program about the Amazon woman warrior found in a kurgan in a similar area of Russia? She was buried with gold jewelery, weapons and an alabaster jar from Egypt.

DNA was sucessfully extracted from her bones (in Germany) and a likeness of her face reconstructed by a forensic laboratory, also in Germany.

A search of Kazakh tribeswomen in Mongolia produced a direct blood relative, a young red-haired girl of that group, through a DNA match.

I do not know the year of the find. -j-

That was on TV here not so long ago. I wondered, whether Dr. Davis-Kimball included her own DNA for control in the study...
It would be really great to know more about that bow and the arrows!
Szabi
Tomaz
Really interesting news, thanks for posting all the links. In many ways, this could be a groundbreaking discovery. I hope the finds will be published soon. Definitely something to keep an eye on.
thimosabv
Very good discovery to those of us interested in the artifacts.
Dave Peters
Godehardt wrote: In this kurgan, they also found a gorytos together with arrows and a bow, as H. Parzinger (one of the heads of the excavation team) told me. He promised me to send me information on that equipment so that a reconstruction could be made.

Any pictures or info about the construction of the gorytos?