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Ancient mummy 'with 1,100 year old Adidas boots' died after she was struck on the head

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12 April 2017

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'Adidas mummy', Mongolia. Picture: The Mongolian Observer/The Center of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia

New pictures of the mummy's remarkable red striped boots - first highlighted by The Siberian Times in April last year and now cleaned up after being buried in a grave for around 1,100 years - have been released. When they were first seen, they were immediately likened to the Adidas design. 

Now their modish appearance is even clearer, and it intrigues Mongolian archeologists and ethnographers. 

One local fashion expert said: 'Overall they look quite kinky but stylish - I wouldn't mind wearing them now in a colder climate. 

'Those high-quality stitches, the bright red and black stripes, the length - I would buy them now in no time.'

Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head


Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the headAncient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head


Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head
Archeologists found items from her beauty kit - part of a mirror and a comb - and also a knife. Pictures: The Mongolian Observer/The Center of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia


But it wasn't only the beautifully sewn boots.

In her grave, too, was a fashionable ancient clutch bag that could be a desirable accessory today. 

Archeologists found items from her beauty kit - part of a mirror and a comb - and also a knife.  

She took to the next life a saddle with metal stirrups, found in such perfect condition that it could still be used today.

Adidas mummy Mongolia


Adidas mummy Mongolia


Adidas mummy Mongolia


Adidas mummy Mongolia


Adidas mummy Mongolia
The woman is believed to have been aged between 30 and 40. Pictures: The Mongolian Observer/The Center of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia


Galbadrakh Enkhbat, director of the Centre of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia, said: 'The felt boots are knee length, the soles are leather, and the toecap has stitched stripes in bright red colours.

'With these stripes, when the find was made public, they were dubbed as similar to Adidas shoes with the three stripes. 

'In this sense, they are an interesting object of study for ethnographers, especially so when the style is very modern.'

Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head


Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head


Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head
The high altitude and resulting cold helped the preservation but the body was also covered in Shilajit, a thick, sticky tar-like substance with the colour ranging from white to dark brown. Pictures: The Mongolian Observer/The Center of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia


Scientists have also discovered that the mummy suffered a significant head injury - but it is not known if this was the actual cause of the woman's death sometime in the tenth century in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia. 

Nor it is clear if she was attacked or fell, although further research may answer this. 

Initial examinations found that 'it was quite possible that the traces of a blow of the mummy's facial bones were the cause of her death', he said.

She is believed to have been aged between 30 and 40. 

'Judging by what was found inside the burial we guess that she was from an ordinary social strata,' said Galbadrakh Enkhbat. 

This is despite the classy appearance of some of the possessions with which she is buried, which might suggest to the uninformed a higher status.

'Various sewing utensils were found with her. This is only our guess, but we think she could have been a seamstress.'

Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head


Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head


Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head


Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head
'Various sewing utensils were found with her. This is only our guess, but we think she could have been a seamstress.' Pictures: The Mongolian Observer/The Center of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia


With her in the grave - found at an altitude of 2,803 metres above sea level - archeologists unearthed 51 items including a 'stunningly beautiful embroidered bag', four costumes, vases, a saddle, her sewing kit and the skull head of a ram.

'The bag was made of felt,' he said. 'Inside was the sewing kit and since the embroidery was on both the bag and the shoes, we can be certain that the embroidery was done by locals.

The women is believed to be of Turkik origin, and the burial is one of the most complete ever found. 

Experts now believe on the basis of 18 samples taken from the mummy that it does not date from the 6th century AD, as first surmised, but rather from the 10th century, but DNA and radiocarbon testing is still awaited. 

'It is the first complete Turkik burial at least in Mongolia - and probably in all Central Asia,' said researcher B.Sukhbaatar, of Khovd Museum. 'This is a very rare phenomenon. 

'These finds show us the beliefs and rituals of Turkiks. We can see clearly that the horse was deliberately sacrificed. It was a mare, between four and eight years old.'

He said: 'When the find was first made in 2015, it was relatively intact but in 2016 some portions of the grave had opened up, livestock animals had eaten some part of it, which prompted the joint team to dig the find and take it to the Khovd museum.'

Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head


Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head


Ancient mummy with 1,100 year old Adidas boots died after she was struck on the head
'It is the first complete Turkik burial at least in Mongolia - and probably in all Central Asia,' said researcher B.Sukhbaatar, of Khovd Museum. Pictures: The Mongolian Observer/The Center of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia


The burial was undertaken as if those responsible intended the remains to be preserved. 

The high altitude and resulting cold helped the preservation but the body was also covered in Shilajit, a thick, sticky tar-like substance with the colour ranging from white to dark brown.

The body - like the horse's remains - was covered in felt. 

'As the grave was buried in a cool environment, fabric and the felt did not undergo a biological reaction,' said Galbadrakh Enkhbat. 'They appeared as if they had been used only yesterday. 

'Had they been buried in the soil, nothing would have remained.'

The mummy is being exhibited in the National Museum of Mongolia. 

With her in the grave - found at an altitude of 2,803 metres above sea level - archeologists unearthed 51 items including a 'stunningly beautiful embroidered bag', four costumes, vases, a saddle, her sewing kit and the skull head of a ram. Pictures: The Mongolian Observer/The Center of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia

Adidas mummy Mongolia

Adidas mummy Mongolia


Adidas mummy Mongolia


Adidas mummy Mongolia

Comments (45)

A member of parliament of Mongolia, Byambatsogt.S, who has recently claimed that the origin of adidas brand is from Mongolia due to the fact that this mummy's red striped boots were found in Mongolia haha. 2022.03.22
Ssagaji, Ulaanbaatar
22/03/2022 14:57
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Weirdest thing I have seen, proof time travel is real
stev, rib rock,usa
09/02/2022 10:40
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This case is so mestirous, we can't simply say that this is not time travel.
After considering the things that she have and specially the knife( old aged knife was comparatively big in size than today's knife) is similar to what we use nowdays.
Here is my personal opinion:
I think it's about to happen, The time travel is going to happen soon she could be the test subjects that would be send first.
Or maybe she came from another world (it could be another galaxy, planet, or dimensions) either as a test or a tester ...

WHO KNOWS ? THE REAL TRUTH'?
Alex, India
11/08/2021 23:06
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What are the color charts and the printed word for??
Joy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
14/10/2020 15:42
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When i came to know about this, i was so curious to know full detail about it.
It's really very amazing.
If it is related to time travel.
Dheeraj Kumar Jha, India
02/04/2020 11:04
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Great information. I also came across different mummy in Grenoble museum.
The mummy of the influential prophetess of Antinopolis 620 AD was discovered in 1907 in a Coptic necropolis of Middle Egypt accompanied by remarkable funeral furniture while she was resting in a wooden coffin. CT scan of this mummy shows that she died at 40.
https://tathastuu.com/2019/12/learn-about-the-mummy-of-influential-prophetess-of-antinoopolis.html
Dheeraj Jain, France
15/01/2020 09:06
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Martin, She is not Turkish woman. She is Mongolian woman.
MC, UB, Mongolia
12/12/2019 18:03
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Funny, I graduated from high school 50 years ago and today I was watching a video with a series of young people and was stunned how much they all looked just like 1970. I think it's because the young people are wearing tighter clothing this past few years. I mean, the t-shirts, jeans, mini-skirts, haircuts, all looked identical. If you had shown me the video 50 years ago I would have been stunned that everything looked so much the same. We were all watching futuristic movies and getting shown some pretty wild outfits (that we would someday be wearing). We also were told that our clothing would be paper (disposable).
Sunny, Gilbert, AZ
06/09/2019 11:56
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I was so amazed when i read about the mummy wearing adidas boots.
Then I found she was my one of ancestors. Turkic woman
Martin, 군포시
04/04/2019 04:41
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군포출장샵
I every time spent my half an hour to read this web site's posts all the
time along with a cup of coffee.
Suzanna, Doune
11/12/2018 20:53
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Time traveler.
Lula Lee, United States
27/06/2018 06:02
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I guess that she would have been buried with items a woman would need in her next life. I am very impressed with the striking similarities between her textile items, and those we have now. It's not as though we could have copied it from the past. She was indeed a very accomplished textile maker, with an eye for flare.
Sharon, Columbus, Ohio
27/05/2018 11:25
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As a continuation of my earlier comments .....

Consider a rather "mysterious" phenomenon in the field of quantum physics. In the everyday common-sense world reality around us, and throughout our physical/material universe, two things are only connectable with each other through, time, space, and within the speed of light.

But in the quantum world, the world of very small sub-atomic dimensions, space, time and speed of light no longer works. In fact here, there is actually no matter at all. Only "POTENTIALITIES". Or mathematical probabilities of what can happen to which wave or which particle. A wave can "become" a particle. And a particle can become a wave. But what is most strange is that there seems to be an instantaneous connectivity between one particle here, and another linked particle elsewhere in physical space, maybe ten trillion miles away.

This is called Quantum Entanglement. Or, simply as Non-Local-Connectivity. Two quantum entities have instantaneous connection with each other without the elements of space, time, and the speed of light as the given basics for their existence.

In this sub-atomic realm of existence, there is no material linkages and connections (through space/time/within speed of light) But as if there is a non-matter phenomenon of "Wholeness' or "Oneness" underlying it all.


Could our earlier suggestion that deep within human creativity (as shown in culture and all anthropological manifestations) is a certain CYCLIC AND RE-EMERGING POTENTIAL that surfaces and connects all sorts of human creativity and artform expressions - irrespective of any time-context and civilisation-context ?
Leo Lim, Malaysia
02/03/2018 23:22
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Alan Gaines ... USA 02/06/2017 ... writes most succinctly. If indeed this observation is true, then there is a certain "hidden cyclic continuity" in human culture that we dont realise, and of course which science has yet to discover. And even archaelogy and anthropology have yet to notice, and document it. (I stand to be corrected here
by archeologists and anthropologists from various sub-disciplines).

More than just a "common aesthetic sense", it could be some form of inexplanable latent "creative potential" that is manifestable through human creativity in any time and cultural context - with absolutely no explianable causative factors from one context to the other (as in this Mongolian case when the design, artistry, material, workmanship, technological ability, and aesthetric depth taking place in a time-&-cultural context WHICH WAS EASILY MORE THAN A MILLINNIUM BEFORE OUR PRESENT TIME! )

Sheer coincidence ?



Leo Lim, Malaysia
02/03/2018 23:15
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I see her saddle has stirrups. Weren't they invented around 1000 AD? As far as her head injury, perhaps she was thrown from her horse. This could be the reason for the accompanying horse sacrifice in her burial. I mean, who wants a horse that always throws the rider? Other than that, this is a rich burial with wonderful artifacts.
BrokenTree UsaUka, USA
14/02/2018 03:46
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