A unique find has been made by archeologists in Rubtsovsk Region of Altai Territory. A well-preserved mummy of the Scythian period has been discovered in the fourth of the five royal barrows, the expedition members have informed today.
      
      The 2300 year-old mummified body of a woman has even her manicure preserved on the right hand. According to the researchers, it will enable them to carry out the molecular-genetic analysis for making clear if the woman was a native inhabitant of this land or not. The finds have been sent to the Hermitage restoration laboratory.
      
      It is the clothing covered with copper plates that has preserved the body of the woman who died in the 4th century BC. The copper oxidation is conducive to the preservation of organic material. Moreover, the robbers who had broken into the burial mound before, had left the mummy in the pathway with oxygen and thus had also helped its preservation.
      
      Source: regnum.ru