New Altai frozen tomb discovery

Bede · Post by **Bede** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:41 pm

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 · Post by **Godehardt** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:01 pm

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 · Post by **jack farrell** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:28 pm

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 · Post by **jonR** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:08 pm

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.

Reto · Post by **Reto** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:15 pm

Jack, I saw it i about four latest six weeks ago. Here the link:

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/16/0,187 ... 72,00.html

If you need somebody to help with the German, please feel free

Reto

Reto · Post by **Reto** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:16 pm

Jack, I saw it i about four latest six weeks ago. Here the link:

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/16/0,187 ... 72,00.html

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/25/0,187 ... 81,00.html

If you need somebody to help with the German, please feel free

Reto

Szabi Nagy · Post by **Szabi Nagy** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:33 pm

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 · Post by **Tomaz** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:58 pm

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 · Post by **thimosabv** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:36 pm

Very good discovery to those of us interested in the artifacts.

jonR · Post by **jonR** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:48 am

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcript ... erian.html
Here is part of the transcript from the Nova program.
jonR

Dave Peters · Post by **Dave Peters** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:40 pm

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?