Breaking News: Siberian ‘Sleeping Beauty’ – 2,000-year-old mummy found in reservoir
Archaeologists are hailing the extraordinary find of a purported “Hunnic woman” with a jeweled jet buckle on her beaded belt. After a drop in water levels, the well-preserved mummy was found this week on the shore of a giant reservoir on the Yenisei River, upstream of the massive Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam, which powers Russia’s largest power plant and the ninth-largest hydroelectric power station in the world.