Archaeologists recently discovered more than 3000 gold jewelry in an ancient Scythian burial in Kazakhstan. The artifacts were discovered in a mound on the Eleke Sazy plateau of the Tarbagatai Mountains in eastern Kazakhstan, in a place known for its 200 mounds of the Saka culture dating back to the 8th-7th centuries BC.
Saki culture, a nomadic people who inhabited the Eurasian steppe, areas of modern Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, in the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. Scythians-Saks were not a purely nomadic people. In some places they created permanent settlements with large burials, crops and mines for the extraction of metals. The processing of these metals was very complex and made it possible to produce fine jewelry and other artifacts, which served as a very popular commodity for neighboring nomadic peoples in the steppe.
By the way, the famous golden man is the Scythian-Sak.
The artifacts found in the grave are exceptional examples of Saka jewelry making.
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Archaeologists believe that the combination of jewelry and weapons indicates that the inhabitants of the tomb were spouse and consort, or rulers, or at least the highest nobility of Saka society.
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The tomb itself is open, but the archaeologists have not yet reached the burial!
Can you imagine what discoveries still await us?
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Such a rich find, made after two years of excavations at the site, gives hope that after the excavation of 200 burial mounds already known to archaeologists in this area, there are still a lot of discoveries awaiting us. It is likely that the graves were looted on a large scale in antiquity, but it is still quite possible to find another such.
The burial mound's treasures will be cleaned and preserved before they appear in September at the annual international archaeological conference “Altai. Golden cradle of the Turkic world"
However, it is quite possible that the main burial of the mound was also robbed several centuries or even millennia ago. Therefore, archaeologists speak of the prospects of discoveries during future excavations of this mound with cautious optimism.
News from Kazakhstan was told to you by Lysy Kamrad (aka Meditation).