The 2,500-Year-Old Frozen Woman Found In Siberia — And The Secrets Hidden Inside The Ice Maiden’s Tomb
This is what the cold can do.
This is what the specific, accidental combination of conditions that obtained at one kurgan on the Ukok Plateau did, for one young woman, over one extraordinary span of time.
She was twenty-five when she died.
She is two thousand five hundred years old now.
The tattoo on her shoulder is still blue.
The ice held.
The rest is everything we can know and cannot know and are still trying to understand.
She is the Ice Maiden.