November
16
/ 2019
By The Siberian Times reporter An exceptionally well-preserved mummified body of a woman in traditional Yakut clothes with a copper cross on her chest has been found on Lena River sand bank and ‘proves a site north of Yakutsk city is not the historic original Cossack settlement’. The scientific team that worked on discovering traces of the first Russian fortress set up in Yakutia was surprised to see the level of preservation, considering that she had been buried in sand rather than permafrost soil. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"67243","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"319","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Lena River sand bank where the mummified woman was found. Picture: Elena Solovyeva Another striking feature was the copper cross on her chest. The woman was Christian, we can assume. Until now, there has been
