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Archaeologists discover permafrost mummy with fur coat. PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 17 August 2006
Research workers of the German archaeological institute have discovered a mummy in permafrost at excavation work in Mongolia of approximately 2,500 years old. At the "sensational find" of a sepulchre chamber of the Scythian rider people a crew of the German television sender ZDF were present. In front of the camera the archaeologists opened the sepulchre where the mummy of the Scythian soldier was stored. The mummy, conserved in permafrost, carried still a fur coat and had a decorated gilded head ornament. According to the scientists the discovery is similar with those of the legendary Ötzi in 1991, and the tattooed siberian ice princess from 1993.

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 1 Awesome
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-17 15:37:02, IP: 207.218.185.98
I wonder if it's mink or chinchilla! And he's got bling too? Yo, does this baller have a grill to go wit dat chain?
 2 Barry
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-17 21:36:49, IP: 209.105.195.241
Great storie would like to hear more and see pictures.
 3 Time for pictures!
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-17 21:57:12, IP: 66.169.97.68
Hopefully, there will be pictures of this find made public as soon as possible. What an amazing find!
 4 Written by Guest, on 2006-08-17 23:26:12, IP: 70.16.62.242
Congratulations on this wonderful find
 5 Alan
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-18 17:52:32, IP: 152.163.101.6
Yes! Pictures please! Would like to see my ancient relative.
 6 Outstanding...
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-19 00:08:27, IP: 67.160.118.40
My question is are they sure its Scythian and not one of the other tribes that held the nation so firmly before Rome? Some pictures would certainly be nice. 
 
Regards, 
Stacey W.
 7 Gordon
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-19 05:31:25, IP: 68.107.88.228
I am terribly excited about this find - these are my people! Tell whoever is writing this news article to please write a follow-up piece. 
 
v/r Gordon  
San Diego Air & Space Museum
 8 Richard
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-19 13:29:14, IP: 24.250.110.66
Fantastic! I'm hoping they can get some testable y-dna from this Scythian mummy. Perhaps the permafrost as preserved it from too much damage?
 9 Josh S. Gray
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-19 22:09:11, IP: 66.190.231.173
The German tv crew needs to publish some pitures or video.
 10 Written by Guest, on 2006-08-20 19:05:53, IP: 207.239.14.37
Where's the photos? With a find like this there definitely should be photos released to the 'starving" public. 
 
JMLEE 
Trenton, NJ
 11 Kj
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-23 07:13:19, IP: 202.170.64.225
Oh yeah, it's true! I saw it on Mongolian tv stations. Even mongolian president paid a visit on that sight. They had a ground hog or monmat skin clothings. That animal is still popular in mongolioan wild. I think they found it in the most western province of Mongolia. Which is close to Kazakhstan and Xinjian of china. I never know scythians came this far east. Interesting...
 12 report on german telivision
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-24 13:19:18, IP: 82.72.72.240
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/30/0,1872,2095422,00.html 
 
Fascinating find. Among the comment they say most organic materials were well preserved because it was found in the Altai at 2600 meters altitude. They also say he probably was blond.
 13 Any DNA Available for Comparison Testing
Written by Guest, on 2006-08-26 12:26:33, IP: 60.231.10.4
With all the hype about the use of DNA Testing in the search of one's roots - and the debunking of some about its accuracy - and given the fact of the remarkable state of this truely remarkable find, I wonder if the Scyth Warrior's DNA might become available for comparative studies. According to oral history my family is of Mongolian descent [yes Genghis Khan] and comes from the Bilsk area north of Poltava in the Ukraine where there are excavations underway at the site of the ancient walled city of HELON [GELON in Ukrainian] as described by Herodotus?
 14 Frozen Tombs of Siberia
Written by Guest, on 2006-09-17 05:20:41, IP: 202.72.245.199
Frozen Tombs of Siberia by Rudenko covers a similar earlier find on the Russian side of the Altai mountains. Our company adopted one of the tattoos from one of the mummies as our company logo. boojum.com/snark.html 
 
This same creature is depicted on a felt rug (and a Mongolian postage stamp) apparently being used as a domestic animal in the hunt. What I find curious and would be interested to know, is the significance of the "bird head" structures on the neck of the logo. these are consistent on the image from the rug as well as being consistent on the other animals depicted in the tattoos on the mummy. They seem to me to be an addition that is not part of the realistic depiction of the animals. I would suggest that it indicates domestication of the animal depicted. Kent Madin
 15 I'm calling PETA!
Written by Guest, on 2006-09-25 01:48:31, IP: 64.75.162.130
I hope the animal was eaten at least! I would hate to think it was killed just for the warmth of it all.
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Written by mfxahcue website, on 2007-05-23 01:24:29, IP: 193.124.133.214
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