The 2,500-Year-Old Frozen Woman Found In Siberia — And The Secrets Hidden Inside The Ice Maiden’s Tomb
Chinese silk.
Persian-influenced textiles.
Gold from multiple possible sources.
Lapis lazuli.
The Pazyryk were not simply consumers of local resources; they were participants in a Eurasian-scale exchange system.
The Headdress And What It Communicated
The Ice Maiden’s headdress deserves specific attention because it is one of the most distinctive and informative elements of the burial — and because the decision to make a coffin specifically large enough to accommodate it reveals something important about how the burial was planned.
The headdress was constructed on a felt base, with a central spike approximately 90 centimeters — about 35 inches — tall.
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