Ancient Siberian Burial Unveils Mysterious Woman Wrapped in Foal-Skin and a Copper Cross—What Secrets Does She Hold?
“The lower part of her clothes are preserved,” said Solovyova. “These were underwear made of fur, traditional Yakutian clothing, plus stockings up to the hips, made of the skin of a foal with fur inside.”
Andrey KhoroshevOther remains dug up in 2014 were unreliably dated to match the founding of Lensky Ostrog.
While archaeologists like Solovyova are no strangers to digging up bodies and encountering unsightly antiquities, she felt uncomfortable with an exhaustive analysis on the buried woman’s remains.
“We did not do the full morphological research [on] this woman, even though there was a plan to take the skulls of people buried on this cemetery to understand if they were Russians or Yakuts,” she said. “I could not do this for ethical reasons.”
“The woman was mummified, not just scattered bones. I just could not make myself separate her head from [her] body. But I’m sure that this woman was Yakut.”
While Solovyova doesn’t reject the possibility that this graveyard could have been built on top of a much older one — and that Lensky Ostrog could very well sit below — there simply hasn’t been any proof of that yet.
While Siberia continues to reveal more ancient specimens like horses, lions, and wolves, it seems like Russia’s first settlement in the region has yet to be discovered.
After learning about the mummified woman from the 1800s found in Siberia, take a look at the 5,600-year-old mummy that revealed the oldest Egyptian embalming recipe ever found. Then, learn about a few lesser-known mummies that time nearly forgot.
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