Tuva

By The Siberian Times reporter An ancient Xiongnu-era woman took a stylish accessory to the afterlife. To archeologist Pavel Leus the striking new find resembled a modern smartphone. The black rectangular object was located in a burial site known as ‘The Russian Atlantis’ in mountainous Republic of Tuva, for it only appears from under water for a few weeks a year. Archaeologists jokingly nicknamed the ancient female Natasha, while her accessory was called ‘an iPhone’. “Natasha’s’ burial with a Xiongnu-era iPhone remains one of the most interesting at this burial site,” Pavel Leus said in a new publication summarizing results of several years of recent archeological expeditions to the Ala-Tey burial site. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"64656","attributes":{"alt":"Burial AT 1/29, a 2,100-year-old skeleton with belt