2,500-year-old burial mound found in Siberia’s ‘Valley of the Kings’

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2,500-year-old burial mound found in Siberia’s ‘Valley of the Kings’

March 28, 2022

Archaeologists have discovered a large burial mound in the Siberian “Valley of the Kings” dating to more than 2,500 years ago. The ancient tomb holds the remains of five people, including those of a woman and toddler who were buried with an array of grave goods, such as a crescent moon-shaped pendant, bronze mirror and gold earrings.

The mounds were made by the Scythians — a term used to describe culturally-related nomadic groups that lived on the steppes between the Black Sea and China from about 800 B.C. to about A.D. 300.

The burial mound, known as a kurgan, is located near a previously excavated kurgan belonging to a Scythian chief. Given the proximity of the woman’s burial mound to the chief’s — only 65 feet (20 meters) away — and the valuable artifacts buried with her, “I think that she was a person of great importance in the society of nomads,”

https://www.livescience.com/burials-...y-of-the-kings

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crescent moon-shaped pendant

One of the most beautiful symbols of Scythians and later Turks unfortunately seen as a muslim symbol nowdays. Its real sad.