Incredible mummy of a 'polar princess' is found close to the Arctic Circle after 900 years - with her hair and long eyelashes still intact – after she was unwrapped from a cocoon of copper and fur
Aged around 35, she was the only woman buried around three dozen men in permafrost in the 12th century
Her haunting face and features are clearly seen after she was unwrapped by scientists from her cocoon
The green tinge on her face is from the fragments of a copper kettle that would protect her in the afterlife
She was a member of a mysterious medieval hunting and fishing civilisation that held sway in this polar region
The miraculous mummy of a 'polar princess' has been found close to the Arctic Circle, her long eyelashes and hair still intact after 900 years.
Her haunting face and features are clearly seen after she was unwrapped by scientists from the cocoon of copper and fur in which she was buried in permafrost soil in the 12th century.
Aged around 35, she was the only woman buried around almost three dozen men, and the detail on her accidentally mummified remains is astonishing.