{"id":111727,"date":"2024-10-08T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=111727"},"modified":"2024-10-08T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:18:47","slug":"2800-year-old-burial-mound-with-sacrifices-unearthed-in-siberia-is-eerily-similar-to-scythian-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=111727","title":{"rendered":"2,800-year-old burial mound with sacrifices unearthed in Siberia is eerily similar to Scythian graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"article-body\">\n<p>A 2,800-year-old burial in Siberia that contains the remains of an elite individual, who was buried with at least one sacrificed human and 18 sacrificed horses, appears to belong to a culture closely related to the enigmatic Scythians, a new study finds.<\/p>\n<p>The kurgan, or large burial mound, was unearthed in Tuva, a republic in southern Siberia. It dates to the transition between the Bronze and Iron ages, and it&#8217;s one of the earliest known of its kind to show Scythian burial practices, according to the study, published Tuesday (Oct. 8) in the journal <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15184\/aqy.2024.145\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15184\/aqy.2024.145\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Antiquity<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<p>An excavation of the kurgan revealed horse-riding gear and artifacts decorated with animals, indicating that the elite person&#8217;s culture was similar to that of the Scythians, who later lived thousands of miles to the west, the researchers wrote in the study. Some of the horse skeletons still had brass bits lodged between their teeth; the remains of a woman, likely a sacrifice victim, was also found, they noted.<\/p>\n<p><strong\/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/scythian-on-horseback-a-2400-year-old-gold-sculpture-of-a-warrior-heading-into-battle\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/scythian-on-horseback-a-2400-year-old-gold-sculpture-of-a-warrior-heading-into-battle\"><u><strong\/><\/u><\/a>Although the Scythians had a vibrant culture that included horse rearing, art featuring animals and ritual sacrifice, they left behind no written records of themselves. Instead, their legacy has been defined primarily by people who encountered them, such as the Greek historian <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/who-was-herodotus\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/who-was-herodotus\"><u>Herodotus<\/u><\/a> (circa 484 to 420 B.C.), who wrote about their elaborate sacrificial burial rituals for the &#8220;<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Roman\/Texts\/Herodotus\/4C*.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Roman\/Texts\/Herodotus\/4C*.html\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Scythian royalty<\/u><\/a>&#8221; in the fifth century B.C.<\/p>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/herodotuswitheng02herouoft\/page\/270\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/herodotuswitheng02herouoft\/page\/270\/mode\/2up\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>According to Herodotus<\/u><\/a>, the Scythians would sacrifice dozens of horses and servants to honor the death of a Scythian king. Once killed, the horses would be gutted and stuffed, and then both the sacrificed humans and horses would be propped up with wood to appear as if they were going around the burial mound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/scythian-on-horseback-a-2400-year-old-gold-sculpture-of-a-warrior-heading-into-battle\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/scythian-on-horseback-a-2400-year-old-gold-sculpture-of-a-warrior-heading-into-battle\"><u><strong>Scythian on horseback: A 2,400-year-old gold sculpture of a warrior heading into battle<\/strong><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Herodotus also wrote that the Scythians migrated west from central Asia after being pushed out by a hostile group, but other contemporaneous writers gave different accounts of the horse riders&#8217; origins. Modern genetic studies have shown that the Scythians of the first millennium B.C. were a diverse cultural group containing Siberian, East Asian and Eurasian <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7997506\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7997506\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>ancestry<\/u><\/a>. But the full story of how and where these groups came together to form the Scythian culture is still debated.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-DRiiYnnoRVrfgYXH3aVtHH\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-DRiiYnnoRVrfgYXH3aVtHH slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Get the world\u2019s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The horseback-riding Scythians have sparked the imaginations of people since the days of Herodotus,&#8221; study senior author <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iaw.unibe.ch\/ueber_uns\/va_personen\/dr_caspari_gino\/index_ger.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.iaw.unibe.ch\/ueber_uns\/va_personen\/dr_caspari_gino\/index_ger.html\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Gino Caspari<\/u><\/a>, an archaeologist at the University of Bern in Switzerland, said in a statement. &#8220;But the origins of their culture have long remained hidden in remote corners of the Eurasian steppes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\" style=\"max-width:1066px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:150.09%;\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-320-80.jpg.webp 320w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-480-80.jpg.webp 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-650-80.jpg.webp 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-970-80.jpg.webp 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-1024-80.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-1200-80.jpg.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of the lower jaw bone of a horse in the mud, with a brass bit still attached.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-320-80.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-480-80.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-650-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-970-80.jpg 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-1024-80.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn-1200-80.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yo2RGKE3BFcYxasdb5XJwn.jpg\"\/><\/picture><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Eighteen horses, some with brass bits still in their mouths, were found at the burial mound. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Trevor Wallace)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To unearth evidence of the Scythians&#8217; beginnings, archaeologists began excavating the easternmost Scythian-like kurgan ever found, which is located in a valley containing thousands of other burial mounds, known as the &#8220;Siberian <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/burials-siberia-valley-of-the-kings\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/burials-siberia-valley-of-the-kings\"><u>Valley of the Kings<\/u><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Through <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/scientists-dating-methods.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/scientists-dating-methods.html\"><u>radiocarbon dating<\/u><\/a>, the team dated the mound to the late ninth century B.C., making this burial mound one of the oldest known burial mounds to show evidence of Scythian burial practices and the potential start of a tradition that would last centuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unearthing some of the earliest evidence of a unique cultural phenomenon is a privilege and a childhood dream come true,&#8221; 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