The 2,500-Year-Old Frozen Woman Found In Siberia — And The Secrets Hidden Inside The Ice Maiden’s Tomb
What They Found When The Ice Melted
The process of melting the ice to reveal the burial contents was slow, meticulous, and conducted under the ongoing pressure of the Siberian field season.
The team used buckets of hot water, poured carefully, layer by layer.
What they had found before the ice was significant: the outer chamber of the kurgan contained a table — a low wooden table on which a meal had been left.
On the table were cuts of mutton and horsemeat.