Stunning necklace found in Altai mountains

Posted On: May 11th, 2015 at 18:46

Russia
A stunning necklace has been found around the neck of the skeleton of a young woman in the Altai Mountains in Siberia.
The beautiful glass beaded attire, named “Cleopatra’s necklace” because of its similarity to Egyptian necklaces and now considered priceless, is one of the most amazing pieces of non-gold jewellery ever found.
The woman was around 25 years old when she died and must have been an important person, perhaps a princess or something equal, to be wearing such an incredible necklace. But the woman and the necklace date to long before Cleopatra and belong to the time of Alexander the Great, around 350 BC. The most astonishing thing is that the woman was from the Pazyryk culture and could have been related to the famous ‘Ice Princess’ – Princess Ukok, who has aroused so much interest all over the world with her well-preserved tattoos – as she dates to roughly the same time period and comes from the same area.

http://siberiantimes.com/culture/others/features/cleopatras-necklace-found-in-a-siberian-grave/