14/06/2019
THE YUKAGIR MAMMOTH IS BACK IN JAPAN!
- 2005: The Yukagir Mammoth, a unique specimen that died 22,500 years ago, was presented for the first time in Japan (World Exposition, Aichi)
- 2007: Atelier LaPaz is asked by Vyacheslav Shtyrov, President of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia, Russian Federation), to develop and execute the conservation method of the Yukagir Mammoth. With a team of Russian and French experts including our Conservator in Chief of Heritage Gilles Pacaud (former conservator of Museum of Natural History in France) we performed a world premiere and developed a process blending the methods used to conserve the mummies found in Egypt and Ötzi, the Iceman (South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano)
- 2010: Launch of the 2010-2014 Mammuthus Program, an expedition program dedicated to salvaging fossils that have lain encased in the Siberian permafrost for tens of thousands of years and gain knowledge from the natural history record. During that year, we associate GE Healthcare and engage in in-depth analysis of some exceptional specimens such as Lyuba (the world's best preserved 42,000-year-old baby mammoth) and Khroma, the oldest baby mammoth ever found (at least 50,000 years old)
- 2019: The Yukagir Mammoth is back in Japan along with recently-excavated frozen specimens presented for the first time in the country (at the Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation).
In the months to come, we will be organizing an event to celebrate, with our Deneb Club members, the spirit of exploration, science and heritage conservation. Stay tuned!