A unique discovery was made in early 2023, that has no known precedents worldwide: the fully preserved carcass of a 3,460-year-old brown bear, found in the Siberian permafrost. Read more Section: News Videos Read Later Source Views: 0
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3,500-Year-Old Mummified Bear Found in Siberian Permafrost
As the permafrost in Siberia melts, it has revealed a mummified brown bear that lived more than three millennia ago. Scientists are now planning to conduct an autopsy on the bear, with the hope of making a breakthrough in the study of ancient animals. The bear’s remains were found by deer herders on Bolshoi Lyakhovsky […]
Bronze Age Human Bone Amulet Found in Ancient Siberian Tagar Burial
How a culture buries its dead provides a crucial understanding of a culture across time periods, across historical divides, across geographical territories. Some of these ancient and prehistoric practices Read more Section: Artifacts Other Artifacts News History & Archaeology Read Later Source Views: 0
Report: Putin Has Moved His Family Into Siberian ‘Underground City’ Designed To Survive Nuclear War
Journalist Dan Hodges faced a backlash on Twitter for asserting a no fly zone should be imposed over Ukraine, something that would almost inevitably start World War III, because Vladimir Putin is no different from Hitler. Hodges, who spent much of the last two years cowering in his house afraid of a virus with a […]
New Denisovan Fossils From Siberian Cave Are The Oldest Ever Found
Researchers from the Max Planck Society and the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen have found new fossilized human-like remains mixed in an assortment of bone samples taken from Siberia’s famed Denisova Cave. This includes three fragments that belonged to actual Denisovans, the much-speculated-about species that gave the cave its name. These bones will be added […]
Survivor Found In Siberian Coal Mine Accident That Likely Killed Dozens
MOSCOW (AP) — Rescuers have found a survivor in a Siberian coal mine where dozens of miners are presumed dead after a devastating methane explosion, a top local official announced Friday. Sergei Tsivilyov, governor of the Kemerovo region where the mine is located, said on the messaging app Telegram that the survivor was found in […]
Spectacular Bronze Age Karasuk Culture Jewelry Found in Siberian Grave
A Bronze Age burial in southern Siberia has produced one of the most diverse and dazzling collections of high-quality jewelry ever discovered in an ancient individual’s grave. Inside the grave of a woman who was buried sometime between the eighth and 10th centuries BC, archaeologists from Siberia’s Novosibirsk Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography found an […]
Traffic on Trans-Siberian Railway halted after bridge collapse
Traffic on the world’s longest railway has been blocked after a bridge collapsed following heavy rain and flooding. Dozens of trains remain stuck on the 9,289-kilometre Trans-Siberian Railway, officials said on Friday. No one was hurt when part of the bridge collapsed near Nizhnyaya Kuenga in the Trans-Baikal region east of Lake Baikal. Russian President […]
A new COVID-19 mutation emerges in Russia nicknamed ‘Siberian Variant’
The World Health Organization has revealed that it has placed a new Covid-19 strain first discovered in Russia on its online list of variants for monitoring. It joins a selection of eleven other unnamed coronavirus mutations. The strain was first detected in January this year, but it has only now been deemed severe […]
Tiny Animal Revived After 24,000 Years Entombed in Siberian Permafrost
A tiny animal called a rotifer has been revived after spending 24,000 years frozen in permafrost. It is the longest a rotifer has been observed to survive in such extreme cold. While simple organisms like bacteria can often survive millennia in permafrost, “this is an animal with a nervous system and brain and everything”, says Stas […]
The Female Siberian Ice Maiden Whose Legends Lives On
Buried in permafrost soil around the 5th century AD, a 35-year-old woman was discovered in the Republic of Altai, Russia. Finding the woman helped archaeologists develop deeper understanding of the people that lived in this remote region. The female, who is now known as the Siberian Ice Maiden was buried with a fascinating range of […]
The Female Siberian Ice Maiden Whose Legend Lives On
Buried in permafrost soil around the 5th century AD, a 35-year-old woman was discovered in the Republic of Altai, Russia. Finding the woman helped archaeologists develop deeper understanding of the people that lived in this remote region. The female, who is now known as the Siberian Ice Maiden was buried with a fascinating range of […]
Early Siberian Explorers Crossed The Bering Sea With Canine Companions
For decades, archaeologists generally agreed that the first humans in the Americas were the Clovis people, who were believed to have left northern Asia and reached the Alaska region about 13,000 years ago. However, archaeologists have now established that humans reached the Americas thousands of years before that. And now, a new paper looking at […]
5,000-Year-Old Masked Figurine Found in Siberian Mass Grave
Archaeologists have discovered a strange little masked figurine in Siberia. It was found upon the shoulder of a woman who was buried face down in a mass grave 5,000 years ago. The whole scenario has created an alluring archaeological mystery. Mysterious Burial Rituals of the Odinov Culture The archaeological team found the masked figurine this […]
High Levels Of Ancient Extreme Siberian Nomadic Violence Discovered
A Swiss-Russian team of archeologists, anthropologists and forensic experts have discovered evidence of extreme Siberian nomadic violence within communities of ancient Siberians. The team’s research findings of Siberian nomadic violence provide new insights into social life in Siberian nomadic peoples that is both surprising and detailed. The steppe nomads were horse-riding, bow-wielding warriors who dominated […]
Ancient Siberian Carved Mammoth Ivory Yields Amazing New Information!
A team of Siberian archaeologists has studied a collection of 24,000-year-old mammoth ivory revealing hitherto unknown secrets of ancient craft technologies. The year 2020 has produced a number of incredible scientific papers about ancient mammoths and their interactions with early humans. Topics covered in these papers include the oldest mammoth traps ever discovered in Mexico, […]
Amazing New Siberian Mammoth Remains May Lead to Cloning Breakthrough
Russian scientists have retrieved the nearly complete remains of a woolly mammoth in Russia. The Siberian mammoth remains are so well-preserved that they still have flesh and hair. These remains are up to 10,000 years old and they could play an important role in the international race to recreate prehistoric beasts in laboratories. The remains […]
Russia ready to extend Trans-Siberian Railway through Korean peninsula
The world’s longest railway spanning almost the entire length of Russia – the Trans-Siberian – could get an extension to North and South Korea. A memorandum on the project was signed 10 years ago, but talks have been frozen after relations between the two Koreas deteriorated. The recent thaw has seen Seoul and Pyongyang […]
Minecraft-style Lenin monument unveiled in Siberian city (VIDEO)
The cardboard Lenin statue looks like it has come right out of the world of popular computer game Minecraft. It was unveiled in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk as part of an art project at a local state museum on Thursday. Incidentally, it is situated in Karl Marx street. The pixelated Lenin stands in his iconic pose with […]
Man vs wild: Bear steals Siberian hunter’s 2 guns from his cabin
The 57-year-old man decided to rest in the cabin while hunting deep in a forest in the Irkutsk region of eastern Siberia. He briefly left the cabin to fetch some fresh water and when he returned he was startled to learn that a wild bear was rooting around in his belongings. “To avoid an encounter […]