Siberian Ice Maiden Research Paper
The Siberian Ice Maiden Written By Emma Byrne
The Siberian Ice Maiden is a 2400 year old mummy from Siberia, whose preserved corpse was discovered by Archaeologists excavating in the Altai Mountains, near the Chinese border. The Ice Maiden was discovered in 1993 during a process of a dig led by Natalya Polosmak, of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The archaeologists proved to be extremely lucky in the finding of the Ice Maiden as they nearly missed the tomb. Polosmak and her team were lead to a burial site by a commander, as he knew all the sites in the area. There was a grave above the Ice Maiden, which had been plundered yet they persisted and dug to find the Ice Maiden undisturbed since around 400BC. They had …show more content…
Her head was shaved and she wore a wig and a tall headdress that was decorated with cats and swans. The headdress was assumed a symbol of the tree of life. It is thought that the tree of life in mythology is supposed to bring the universe together. The higher universe of the Gods and the universe of humankind come together with this symbol. All of these objects in addition to her animal tattoos on her arm, shoulder and hand, the archaeologists assumed she was a religious leader and in touch with the spiritual …show more content…
The dating said that the chamber must have been built around 450 years before Christ. Some of the carved tree trunk was measured for age as well, from the rings around the trunk. The archaeologists spent hours peering down a microscope measuring the rings. Each year the tree will grow a varied amount of rings due to the rainfall and other conditions. They discovered that the tree was cut 15 years before building the coffin. When the Ice Maiden died the coffin was already built for her and the inside of the coffin was made to look like her
The Siberian Ice Maiden is a 2400 year old mummy from Siberia, whose preserved corpse was discovered by Archaeologists excavating in the Altai Mountains, near the Chinese border. The Ice Maiden was discovered in 1993 during a process of a dig led by Natalya Polosmak, of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The archaeologists proved to be extremely lucky in the finding of the Ice Maiden as they nearly missed the tomb. Polosmak and her team were lead to a burial site by a commander, as he knew all the sites in the area. There was a grave above the Ice Maiden, which had been plundered yet they persisted and dug to find the Ice Maiden undisturbed since around 400BC. They had …show more content…
Her head was shaved and she wore a wig and a tall headdress that was decorated with cats and swans. The headdress was assumed a symbol of the tree of life. It is thought that the tree of life in mythology is supposed to bring the universe together. The higher universe of the Gods and the universe of humankind come together with this symbol. All of these objects in addition to her animal tattoos on her arm, shoulder and hand, the archaeologists assumed she was a religious leader and in touch with the spiritual …show more content…
The dating said that the chamber must have been built around 450 years before Christ. Some of the carved tree trunk was measured for age as well, from the rings around the trunk. The archaeologists spent hours peering down a microscope measuring the rings. Each year the tree will grow a varied amount of rings due to the rainfall and other conditions. They discovered that the tree was cut 15 years before building the coffin. When the Ice Maiden died the coffin was already built for her and the inside of the coffin was made to look like her