complex ancient tattoos on Siberian princess

[zerozero]

more than 2500 years ago

Siberian princess reveals her 2,500 year old tattoos

For the past 19 years, since her discovery, she was kept mainly at a scientific institute in Novosibirsk, apart from a period in Moscow when her remains were treated by the same scientists who preserve the body of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin.

To mark the move 'home', The Siberian Times has obtained intricate drawings of her remarkable tattoos, and those of two men, possibly warriors, buried near her on the remote Ukok Plateau, now a UNESCO world cultural and natural heritage site, some 2,500 metres up in the Altai Mountains in a border region close to frontiers of Russia with Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.

They are all believed to be Pazyryk people - a nomadic people described in the 5th century BC by the Greek historian Herodotus - and the colourful body artwork is seen as the best preserved and most elaborate ancient tattoos anywhere in the world.

 

[The Real]

 

[zerozero]

that primal swag I really wish we had a camera to look back at our pre-1000BC ancestors in terms of their cultural and aesthetic lives.. art, sexuality, food, behavior, morality

 

[88m3]

I've had a few siberean princesses before if you know what I'm saying

 

[Mowgli]

@ the people who are rushing to tattoo shops to put these tats on their bodies.

(o hey, what do those tattoes mean)


"well actually these tats were found on a Siberian princess. Rumor has it they give the wearer mystical powers"

(thinks in head) "i should be able to hit this with one DVD date"


She ugly.

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

 

[IronFist]

interesting

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

there are dead people with tattoos everywere b