Horizon - Season 0 Episode 27 Ice Mummies: The Ice Maiden
Follows archeologist Natalya Polosmok as she journeys to the Altay Mountains in southern Siberia to search for traces of an ancient people known as the Pazyryk. * Polosmok and her team discover and unearth a wooden tomb surrounded by the frozen remains of six horses, uncovering a 2,400-year-old woman dubbed the Siberian Ice Maiden. * The Ice Maiden is buried alone, lying as if asleep, in a wood coffin with a headdress and a mirror. An afterlife meal, a yak horn vessel and a wooden table are also found outside the coffin. Archeologists record the Ice Maiden's height, and discover a hole in her skull and peat packed in her body. *They use radiocarbon dating, tree-ring chronology and biological testing to determine the age of the remains and time of death. *The body is excavated and taken to Moscow for preservation and facial reconstruction. Another mummy, and other skeletons, are discovered elsewhere. *The program concludes by raising the question of who has rights to the ancient graves.
- Title: Horizon
- Year: 2024
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: United Kingdom
- Studio: BBC Two
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- Runtime: 60 minutes
- IMDb: 7.40 / 10 by 27 users
- Popularity: 92.318
- First Air Date: Feb 04, 1964
- Last Air date: Jul 22, 2024
- Season: 60 Season
- Episode: 1162 Episode
- Language: English
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