Pazyryk culture
The Pazyryk culture (ca. 500 BC) refers to a techno-complex of excavated artefacts and mummificated humans due to permafrost, representing the most well preserved humans as what is known. The mummies are buried in long barrows (or "kurgans") and remiscents about the western tomb mounds. There have been attempts to associate them with Scythian warriors and chiefs described by Herodotus and other early writers. The name comes from the local placename Pazyryk, where the remains were found.
Due to Altaic peoples still profess the Old Belife and relies heavely on their local shaman's intellectual and spiritual knowledge, there is a belife that the disturbed sanctity are causing increased suicides, sickness and earth-quakes in the region and hence the corps must be bringed back to their origins to stop the chaos.
See also: Siberian Ice Maiden
