Without the ice, none of it would exist.

She lived on the Ukok Plateau, 2,500 years ago, in a world that is almost entirely gone.

The ice kept her story when the world that produced her had vanished.

The archaeologists who found her recognized what the ice had preserved and extracted it carefully enough to make that preservation available to the modern world.

The Ice Maiden’s tomb revealed an extraordinary amount about a vanished world.

About the Pazyryk’s material sophistication, their artistic vision, their ritual practices, their connections to the wider ancient world.