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Weekly Jarlig #3 – Your fresh scoop of history and archaeology

Hey, history buffs!

Welcome to another edition of the Weekly Jarlig, your go-to source for the latest updates from history’s frontlines.

Before we dive into the newsletter, I hope you had a chance to catch my exclusive deep dive on the iconic Siberian Ice Maiden, the most well-known mummy from the Pazyryk culture. Here are some of the key highlights from the post which you may have missed:

• The discovery of the Siberian Ice Maiden and how she was extracted from the Siberian Permafrost.

• The significance of her tattoos.

• The use of medical cannabis and cosmetics in the Steppes during the Iron Age.

• Discussion on the Pazyryk people and their genetic analysis.

• Why there was a clash between scientists and the people of Altai and how her body was eventually returned to the place where she was discovered.

A few days ago, I mentioned in Notes that one of the biggest archaeo-heists recently was the theft of gold artifacts from the Dacian Civilization from a museum in the Netherlands.

So, without fur…