Video: 2,500 Year Old Tattooed Siberian Princess Discovered!
Princess Ukok, who was discovered high in Siberia’s Altai mountains, is about 2,500 years old. She was buried in the permafrost, which kept her body remarkably well preserved, including tattoos that are among the most complicated and the most beautiful archeologists have found. Tattoos of mythological creatures and complex patterns are believed to have been status symbols for the ancient nomadic Pazyryk people. A tattoo of a deer with a griffons beak and Capricorn antlers was found on the left shoulder of the ancient princess, who died about age 25.
