Mummy of 'princess' nearly 1,000 years old still has intact hair, long, curved eyelashes

The Siberian Times reported that scientists recently discovered a mummy of a woman buried in the Arctic ice and covered in thick fur. The special thing about this mummy is that her hair and eyelashes are still intact.

Through research, archaeologists determined that this mummy was nearly 1000 years old and her face still retained rare features, enough to haunt many people.

Eyelids and teeth as well as hair remain intact.

It is known that this woman was a princess, died at the age of 35 and was buried with nearly 30 other men around. The archaeological details of this mummy really surprised experts, when the eyelids, teeth and hair were still intact.

The green part of her face is "contaminated" by fragments from a copper kettle - an object that is believed to protect her in the afterlife.

Further research has shown that she was a member of a medieval hunting and fishing civilization.

The mummy was discovered at the Zeleny Yar burial site near Salekhard, Russia.

Archaeologists are baffled as to why she was buried there, as they previously believed it was a male burial site. The hypothesis is that she was an elite member of the society at the time (and possibly the only female).

If her head was well preserved, her body was equally damaged - it appeared to have been completely destroyed.

"We identified the mummy as a woman. But this completely changes our concept of this cemetery. Previously we thought there were only men and boys here, but now we found a woman. It's amazing," said archaeologist Alexander Gusev, of the Russian Arctic Research Center.

The mummy's internal organs were intact.

In addition, experts also discovered the mummies of several children nearby, but perhaps they and this woman are not related.

Russian and Korean experts were excited to discover the mummy and hope to reconstruct the woman's entire face.

"There are two types of mummies in the world - artificial and natural," said Professor Dong-Hoon Shin of Seoul National University.

The best example of artificially mummified bodies is in Egypt. Natural mummies are those buried in certain environmental and climatic conditions such as permafrost, deserts, etc.

Highly preserved, the mummy's internal organs are intact, and this offers many interesting insights for research.

According to Khoahoc.tv