http://www.pentaclemagazine.org/pn760/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2030

Archaeology News
RUSSIAN archaeologists have uncovered the 2000-year-old remains of a warrior preserved intact in permafrost in the Altai mountains region, the official Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily says.

The warrior was blond had tattoos on his body. He was wearing a felt coat with sable fur trimmings and was buried in a wooden frame containing drawings of mythological creatures with an icepick beside him, the paper said.

Local archaeologists believe the man was part of the ruling elite of a local nomadic tribe known as the Pazyryk. Numerous other Pazyryk tombs have been found in the area.

“This is definitely a very serious discovery. It's incredibly lucky that the burial was in permafrost so it was very well preserved,” Alexei Tishkin, an Altai archaeologist, was quoted as saying.

Source: News.com.au

...the burial has been described as "a very serious discovery", particularly because of the condition of the remains.

Now home to a semi-nomadic people, the ancient remains found preserved in the region include the body of a young and powerful Pazyryk female warrior, known as the Ice Maiden,
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and the Pazyryk Carpet, the oldest surviving wool pile oriental rug.
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/580041

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazyryk
A gilded wooden figurine of a deer from the Pazyryk burials,
5th century BC.
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The Pazyryk artifacts closely resembled those of tribes further West—the legendary warriors known as Scythians.

In the 5th Century B.C. the Scythian World stretched eastward from the Black Sea over the vast steps of Europe and Asia, right into the mountains of Siberia. Though they left no written records, their exploits were chronicled by the Greek historical Herodotus. He wrote of warriors so fierce they would drink from the skulls of their victims. Such gruesome tales, told by a foreign observer, were long considered fiction. But archaeologists now see truth in much of his writing.

The kurgan was just ten yards from a barbed-wire fence, just inside the strip of no-man's land between Russia and China.

Then, after weeks of careful digging, they hit paydirt: A large intact wooden chamber that had flooded with water, now turned to ice. ...he found great mounds of stone—both signifying grand burials and preserving them. The stones allowed water to seep down, but deflected the heat of the sun. This, together with the long winters, kept the ground below permanently frozen. http://www.ufoarea.com/aas_siberia.html
"The climate and land in the Altai preserved bodies and [her] people knew that. ... They were very intelligent," she said with a smile, pressing her forefinger to her temple for emphasis.
Propped against the outer wall of the chamber were the frozen remains of six horses. These animals, no doubt of great value in their time, all had been sacrificed. The team could only imagine what other treasures might be preserved in the icy chamber itself.

Starting in the 1920's, Russian Archaeologist, Sergei Rodenko, launched a series of landmark excavations in Southern Siberia. High in the mountains, he found great mounds of stone—both signifying grand burials and preserving them. The stones allowed water to seep down, but deflected the heat of the sun. This, together with the long winters, kept the ground below permanently frozen. Like Natalia Polosmak decades later, Rodenko unearthed sacrificed horses, and with them immaculately preserved cloth saddles, still soft after more than 2000 years. Woolen rugs and other splendid objects had escaped the ravages of time. They gave testament to the richness of this culture, and to its artistry.
http://www.ufoarea.com/aas_siberia.html
Swiss textile experts who analyzed the silk have come to the conclusion that the Pazyryk had trade links with peoples as far as India.
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Pile Carpet (fragment)
Eastern Altai, Pazyryk Burial Mound 5

5th-4th centuries BC
Wool
L 183 cm, w 200 cm
The world's most ancient pile carpet was found in the largest of the Pazyryk burial mounds. Its decoration is rich and varied: the central field is occupied by 24 cross-shaped figures, each of which consists of 4 stylized lotus buds. This composition is framed by a border of griffins, followed by a border of 24 fallow deer. The widest border contains representations of work-horses and men.

The once bright reds, dark blues and greens of the carpet are now faded, but must originally have provided a glowing range of colours.
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Tattooed Body of a Tribal Chief
Altai, Pazyryk Burial Mound 2
5th century BC
Human skin
The body of a chief, found in Pazyryk Burial Mound No. 2, was tattooed almost all over, but unfortunately it is only poorly preserved. The tattoo can be easily examined on the right side of the body. The right arm from the wrist to the shoulder bears representations of six fabulous animals, their hindquarters twisted around, and with branchy horns. The right leg from the kneecap to the ankle is covered with the representation of a fish. On the chest is a tiger with a spiralling tail. On the left arm are two stags and a leaping moufflon with its hind legs bent under.
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Eastern Altai, Pazyryk Burial Mound 5
5th-4th centuries BC
Wood, leather
H 300 cm, diam of wheels 150 cm
This large four-wheel chariot is one of the striking finds of the Pazyryk burial mounds. It consists of a number of parts joined together by leather straps and wooden nails. The trunk is made of two frames joined by means of short carved poles and leather straps. The frames constitute the basis for the canopy. Each of the four large wheels has 34 spokes. The axles do not have a rotary device, and the distance between the back and front wheels is only 5 cm, which meant that the chariot could only be used on flat ground. It could, however, be easily disassembled and transported on horses.

Thanks to the permafrost, the chariot is in an excellent state of preservation.
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Pazyryk burial kurgan
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Three Pazyryk burial kurgans
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[quote]Pazyryk Man’s Shirt
Pazyryk Culture, 5th - 4th century B.C.
V Pazyryk Barrow
Altai Mountain Range, Russia
Following restoration

About the female burial, I seriously doubt if she could have been a "warrior" lol that warrior princess stuff is pure jewish Hollywood make believe that they started with Zena the warrior dyke back in the 1990's . ;) :p

However that having been said I agree it's an interesting historical find and she and others found there probably were Indo-Europeans.

Yeah, women warriors are New World Order mythology, not based on facts.


About the female burial, I seriously doubt if she could have been a "warrior" lol that warrior princess stuff is pure jewish Hollywood make believe that they started with Zena the warrior dyke back in the 1990's . ;) :p

However that having been said I agree it's an interesting historical find and she and others found there probably were Indo-Europeans.

Yeah, women warriors are New World Order mythology, not based on facts.

Itz true. The same amount of people think Romans ate "Italian Food" (tomatoes were from the New World), or that G. Washington cut down a cherry tree, or that the Nazis killed 6M Jews. The closest thing we had to the fabled "amazon tribe" were the Persian/Scythian female archers.

Herodotus had some interesting things to say about the Scythians in his Histories. It was all second hand of course, but still pretty interesting.

In what concerns war, their customs are the following. The Scythian soldier drinks the blood of the first man he overthrows in battle. Whatever number he slays, he cuts off all their heads, and carries them to the king; since he is thus entitled to a share of the booty, whereto he forfeits all claim if he does not produce a head. In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and, laying hold of the scalp, shakes the skull out; then with the rib of an ox he scrapes the scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin. The Scyth is proud of these scalps, and hangs them from his bridle-rein; the greater the number of such napkins that a man can show, the more highly is he esteemed among them. Many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our peasants, by sewing a quantity of these scalps together. Others flay the right arms of their dead enemies, and make of the skin, which stripped off with the nails hanging to it, a covering for their quivers. Now the skin of a man is thick and glossy, and would in whiteness surpass almost all other hides. Some even flay the entire body of their enemy, and stretching it upon a frame carry it about with them wherever they ride. Such are the Scythian customs with respect to scalps and skins.

Herodotus also describes the burial of a Scythian King, in which the whole court is killed and the horses impaled in such a way to keep them standing. I think he wrote that the riders were impaled on them too.