Unfortunately, you and I know much more about the Egyptian civilization and the banks of the Nile than about what happened in antiquity on the territory of modern Russia, but nevertheless, only Siberia keeps a huge number of mysteries and secrets. In this article, I want to talk about just a few of them.
Where did the sargats go?
The great and ancient kingdom of Sargat occupied the territory from the Urals to the Barabinsk steppes and from modern Tyumen to the endless steppes of Kazakhstan. There is a version that Sargatia was part of the most ancient Sarmatia and existed for at least one millennium and then disappeared, preserving numerous mounds to the descendants.
According to scientists, in the Omsk region there is a unique area of Sargatia, where the "Graves of the Ancestors" are located. After all, literally at the beginning of the 20th century, a huge complex was discovered, which became known as Novooblonsky.
Most of the discovered burial mounds have a base of one hundred meters, and rise to an eight-meter height. During excavations in the burial mounds, clothes made of Chinese silk with various golden trinkets were found, very often golden hryvnias worn around the necks were found.
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The results of genetic studies have shown the similarity of DNA with modern Hungarians and Eels. Where the Sarmatians disappeared is still not known.
Denisovsky man - the ancestor of the Australian aborigines
During excavations in the Denisovskaya cave back in 2010, researchers discovered a part of a human finger. As the analysis showed, this phalanx belonged to a seven-year-old girl and she lived more than 40,000 years ago. In addition to this bone, all kinds of tools and decorations were found at the excavation site.
When the researchers studied the genome better, they were literally shocked. But it turned out that the Denisovskaya girl belongs to a previously unknown species of man, who began to be called Homo Ailaiensis "Altai man".
DNA decoding showed that the Denisovsky human genome differs from the modern genome by 11.7% (for comparison, the Neanderthal genome has a deviation of 12.2%).
Studies have shown that no traces of the Denisovsky man were found in the genome of modern Eurasians, but that surprising genetic traces of the "Altaian" were found in the genome of Melanesians who live on the Pacific Islands, and approximately 6% of the genome was also found in the Australian aborigines.
Salbyk pyramid
The Salbyk Kurgan is located in the well-known Valley of the Kings in Khakassia, and the time of its construction dates back to about the 14th century BC. At the base, the structure is a square with a side of 70 m.
In 1950, an archaeological expedition discovered a whole complex resembling Stonehenge inside the mound.
Megalithic statues weighing 50-70 tons were transported to the valley from the banks of the Yenisei. After that, the structure was overlaid with clay and a pyramidal structure was created, which is not much inferior to the Egyptian pyramids.
Further excavations revealed the burial of three soldiers. Archaeologists consider the pyramid-mound to be a Tagar culture, but the question of how such heavy megaliths were brought here have not yet been able to answer.
Mammoth Kurya and Yanskaya site
Numerous questions that arose after the discovery of the sites of ancient people in Arctic Russia remain unanswered.
For example, the Mamontovaya Kurya site in Komi is dated at least 40,000 years old. In the presented place, archaeologists managed to find many bones of ancient animals that were killed by ancient people. They also found a lot of tools and all kinds of scrapers.
The northernmost site at the moment is considered to be the Yanskaya site, found on the terraces of the Yana River, dating back 32,500 years.
The main question is how people could exist here at that time, if, according to the official version, the era of icing was observed here. After all, before that it was believed that the first time a person came to these places was only 14,000 years ago.
Arkaim - the heart of Sintashta
Arkaim is a cult city for all mystifiers and lovers of everything unidentified and mysterious. It is located in the Urals and was opened in 1987. And the age of the city is approximately 5 00-4 000 years. Historians attribute it to the Sintash culture.
Surprisingly, the city is perfectly preserved: houses, workshops and other structures were located along a radial system, and a full-fledged storm sewage system was even implemented in the city. As a result of the excavations, many products made of bone and stone were discovered, as well as foundry molds and many tools made of metal.
Presumably, the settlement could accommodate up to 25,000 inhabitants and by their ethnicity they were European.
Similar cities were found in the Chelyabinsk and Orenburg regions, as well as in Bashkortostan, and the scientists dubbed this region the "Country of cities"
It is amazing that the entire Sintash culture flourished for 150 years. Scientists to this day wonder where an entire nation could have gone literally in one moment.
This is just a small part of the mysteries that the Siberian land keeps.
