The temporal arts — music, speech, narrative — are gone.

What The Funeral Took

The Ice Maiden’s burial was not a simple interment.

The evidence suggests an elaborate, extended process that required significant community investment.

First: the death itself, which apparently occurred when she was approximately 25 years old, under circumstances that may have involved chronic illness of some duration.

Her community had been watching her decline, or her death was sudden — we cannot tell which.

Then: the embalming.