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Ancient 'warrior' found in permafrost
RUSSIAN archaeologists have uncovered the 2000-year-old remains of a warrior preserved intact in permafrost in the Altai mountains region, the official Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily says.

The warrior was blond [and] had tattoos on his body. He was wearing a felt coat with sable fur trimmings and was buried in a wooden frame containing drawings of mythological creatures with an icepick beside him, the paper said.

Local archaeologists believe the man was part of the ruling elite of a local nomadic tribe known as the Pazyryk. Numerous other Pazyryk tombs have been found in the area.

“This is definitely a very serious discovery. It's incredibly lucky that the burial was in permafrost so it was very well preserved,” Alexei Tishkin, an Altai archaeologist, was quoted as saying.

Der Spiegel has more details.

What an evocative image. Mythological creatures! Icepick! Tattoos!

When I read this, I flashed on Pythia's wonderful HtLJ story On Ice, where scientists in an AU future find a frozen Iolaus and manage to revive him.

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Wow, that's amazing! First thing I thought of too, as that's one of my very favourite HtLJ stories.

One of mine too - and now I can't stop thinking about Iolaus all dressed for the cold in leather, sable fur and felt boots. Ahem.

Oooh! Neat!!!

And OMG! You have an Iolaus with the cast icon!! I don't suppose you have one of him with all the leather belts strapping it to his chest? :->

You're welcome to use it if you want! And hmm, I don't think I have one with the strap thing, which is a terrible thing. I should get around to screencapping the Argonauts episode (which I think of as 'Herc and Iolaus half-naked onna boat').

If you make me one with the whole strappy thing, I will love you forever. Wait. What am I saying? I ALREADY love you forever.

Okay, I will squee loudly!!! :->

I'll see what I can do! Loud squeeing is always an incentive.

That's really cool. And freaky, considering the story.

The pictures over at Der Spiegel are neat too. There's a beautiful wood carving of a horse, and also one of two griffin heads, that were found in the grave with him.

What a fascinating discovery - and a great connection!

*nods* I love it when real life and fandom intersect oddly like this.

When I read the first sentence of your post I thought of that story as well.

*cue Twilight Zone music*

Love your icon.

Oh, see, now I have the Twilight Zone tweedly deedly in my head. *g*

And thanks!

Hi Fives you for this post. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Hey, you're welcome! Especially if it spawns a story idea. *g*

Very, very cool.