Lifelike 1700-year-old mummified Hun warrior

[Still Waters]

Mummified archer turns up in remote museum after locals refused to hand him over to the Hermitage in St Petersburg.

The ancient warrior was buried in fur and lay on a wooden ‘bed’ in his burial chamber at a remote Altai Mountains site near the modern day village of Kokorya, some 314 kilometres south of regional capital Gorno-Altaisk. Next to the warrior was placed his weaponry.

His bow in its heyday was some two metres in length; alongside its remnants were half a dozen well-preserved arrow shafts made of birch. 

They were painted in black and white - so he knew which one to pull from the fur-lined quiver for each prey. The arrows originally had iron tips.

http://siberiantimes.com/science/others/features/meet-a-lifelike-2000-year-old-hun-warrior-with-his-bow-and-whistling-arrows/

[Piney]

Nobody has actually identified who exactly the Huns were.

This mummy could be Gokturk, Mongol, or Tungustic. 

[freetoroam]

Apart from missing a few bits, he looks quite well. 

[Space Commander Travis]

Beware the Hun in the sun! 

[Piney]

51 minutes ago, Vlad the Mighty said:

Beware the Hun in the sun! 

My Uncle Henry didn't and he kissed a cow pasture in his P-51.