Even the Kyrgyz who lived in the area of present-day Krasnoyarsk were famous for their fishing and looting of ancient burials.
Their wealth was such that one "hillock" could become the richest person!
Ermak's Cossacks eagerly joined the search, and for hundreds of years they successfully plundered all the large mounds, melting what was found into ingots, selling at a reasonable price in taverns, having lost or drunk.
In 1721, Tsar Peter decided to put an end to this and issued a decree ordering all the treasures of the mounds, interesting and unusual finds to be immediately handed over to the authorities
Scythian gold.
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The first information about excavations of burial mounds (“bumps”) in Siberia dates back to 1669: “Near Iset and around Iset, Russian people are digging gold and silver things and dishes in Tatar graves or cemeteries”.
Whose graves were these?
- Pazyryk Scythians
- Andronovtsy
- Early Turks
In addition to barrows, Siberia has many remains of ancient settlements, with traces of fortifications, masonry and towers. There are especially many of them in Khakassia, where the front of the war of the Indo-Europeans and the Turks took place at the turn of our era.