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Show Russian Scientists Report Unique Find Russian scientists announced their latest discovery last week: The "almost perfectly preserved" bodies of a beautiful young girl and her slain male companion buried bur-ied the Russians said 2,000 years ago in the icy wastes of Siberia. ' The couple was found in a tomb 25 feet below a burial mound in the Altai district of southwestern Siberia. A crack in the tomb's wall admitted the wind and created crea-ted the "ice box" which preserved the bodies. With the bodies archaelogists found cheese and other food which they said, could still be eaten. They thought the girl died of natural nat-ural causes, was given a murdered murder-ed companion to accompany her in the after-world. Both bodies were clothed in furs. The find, said Archeologists S. I. Rudenko, has "exceptional significance sig-nificance in the history of world culture." It may prove relationship of the Altain tribes to peoples of Central and Middle Asia and perhaps per-haps even those on the Black Sea coast. Pathfinder. |