In Yakoutia, a forgotten province of Siberia, anthropologist Eric Crubezy has unearthed a strange tomb containing the body of a woman with her eyes covered and clothed in a garment of pearls. Eric Krubesi, an anthropologist, is excavating burial sites of ancient Yakuts in Eastern Siberia to gather genetic and anthropological data. The Yakuts, an enigmatic people of Eastern Siberia, have left few written records, and their history is largely unknown.