The 2,500-Year-Old Frozen Woman Found In Siberia — And The Secrets Hidden Inside The Ice Maiden’s Tomb
She is still there.
And the questions she opens are still worth asking.
Reading The Pazyryk Through Their Art
One of the consequences of the Pazyryk leaving no written texts is that their art carries an interpretive burden that art in text-producing cultures does not.
In cultures with extensive written records — ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient China — art can be understood in the context of the myths, histories, and theological texts that explain and supplement the visual.
In the Pazyryk case, the art stands alone.
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