The ‘princess’ is from the Pazyryk people. Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science Goodbye… burial scene, reconstructed by Siberian scientists, show clothes, wigs and jewellery worn by Pazyryk women. It is part of a $24 million revamping of the museum – funded by Gazprom – to give her body pride of place. The new tomb built for the Ukok mummy is in a rectangular room, measuring about 50 x 40 metres, covered with a glass top in the shape of a pyramid. The ‘princess’ was met at the local airport by Altai’s first deputy prime minister Yuri Antaradonov, who said: ‘Today is the big event we have been waiting for….It is symbolic that she is finally on her own land.’ The return of the ‘Princess’ is the culmination of a 19 year odyssey after Siberian scientists found her remains on the Ukok plateau, and removed them for careful examination and analysis. For almost a year she was taken to Moscow to be treated by embalmers who care for the lifelike remains of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin.Ī bitter dispute then broke out between locals in Altai – who insisted she should be returned to her “motherland” – and the scientists in Novosibirsk who were determined to understand every last detail about a woman who lived 500 years before Jesus Christ.Įven her final return has been subject to repeated delays but last night it was confirmed she was in Gorno-Altaisk after a helicopter flew the princess on her final journey of 507km from Novosibirsk, Siberia’s largest city. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Reconstruction of a warrior’s tattoos, who was discovered on the same plateau as the ‘Princess’. Elena Shumakova, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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