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what's this?
a very cool #tattoo
a painstakingly recreated one
from a #SiberianIceMaiden, a 3rd-5th century BC mummy
discovered in a kurgan in the altai mountains buried alongside a man, 9 horses, a wagon, and several rugs
she was from a culture known as the #Pazyryk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazyryk_burials
recently, Gino Caspari and team at the #MaxPlanckSociety's Institute of Geoanthropology revealed the obscured tattoo using high-resolution near-infrared photography:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ice-mummy-tattoos