Ancient 'warrior' found in permafrost
From correspondents in Moscow
Article from: Agence France-Presse

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 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.