The mummy of the a thousand-year-old princess has numerous contemporary tattoos that astound archaeologists because it is still in tact.
On July 31, 1993, at an elevation of 2,500 meters on the Okok plateau in the Altai mountains, archaeologists were astounded to find a mummy of a woman over 2,500 years old hidden in a thick layer of snow and ice of the Republic of Altai (next to Mongolia and China).
Archaeological mummies were found to belong to a woman who passed away at the young age of 25 from breast cancer, investigators revealed. This person is regarded as the disease’s first victim.
They also found two sizable tattoos with odd forms on the mummy’s arm. The Pazyryks are well known for getting tattoos, according to historical records, but no one has ever been able to decipher the meaning of the painting on the mummy’s hand.
The mummy’s left arm still has the artwork on it that can be seen plainly. A two-headed deer with a vulture’s beak, a sheep’s leg, and a long-tailed leopard on its back was depicted in the painting, which was of a sacred animal to the Pazyryk people.
This mummy was wearing a silk tunic, a scarlet belt that symbolized a warrior, and it had a pine branch in each hand when it was found. Six horses were also spotted around the site where the mummy was unearthed. Since the Pazyryks were a nomadic tribe that lived in the IV–III centuries BC, many scholars believe that the mummy was once a princess of that tribe. From this point on, the mummy was known as the “Ice Princess” or “Princess of Altai,” or the princess of Altai.
The researchers also came to the conclusion that the princess’s breast cancer-related suffering led her to fall off a horse and turn to marijuana for pain relief.
