Scythian Golden pectoral IV century BC
Posted on 04/28/2022 1:43:27 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Scythian Golden pectoral IV century BC
That sucks.
The Scythians are gonna be pissed.
It would be a crime against humanity to destroy those relics.
exquisite!
A nomadic people with quite a knack for gold artistry, amount other things: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=scythians&t=chromentp&atb=v293-1&iax=images&ia=images
It was originally stolen from a Scythian grave.
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It would be a crime against humanity to destroy those relics.
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With what Russia is doing in Ukraine, they’ll have to get in line.
Interesting info: Tovsta Mohyla
Tens or maybe even hundreds of thousands of burial mounds in the Eurasian steppes are silent witnesses to the past. Nobody knows their exact number since more and more new kurgan sites are discovered every year.
The ancient Scythians were a semi-nomadic Proto-Indo-European Iranian-speaking people that lived around the northern area of the Black Sea. Their culture is thought to have lasted almost 1000 years, during which time they traded regularly with many Mediterranean and Asian cultures including the ancient Greeks, the ancient Persians and the ancient Chinese.
Burial mounds were constructed throughout the Eneolithic Period and the Bronze Age (4th to 3rd millennia BC) to the Early Middle Ages. Classical Scythians dominated the Pontic steppe from about the 7th century BC up until the 3rd century BC. However, most of the burial mounds that remain today could be dated to the first millennium BC or to the Early Iron Age.
A kurgan is a type of tumulus [ancient grave mound; a barrow] constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons and horses.
The earliest kurgans date to the 4th millennium BC in the Caucasus, and researchers associate these with the Indo-Europeans. The Bronze Pre-Scythian-Saka-Sibirian culture developed in close similarity with the cultures of Yenisei, Altai, Kazakhstan, southern, and southeast Amur regions.
Some kurgans had facing or tiling. One tomb in UKRAINE has 29 large limestone slabs set on end in a circle underground. They were decorated with carved geometrical ornamentation of rhombuses, triangles, crosses, and on one slab, figures of people. Another example has an earthen kurgan under a wooden cone of thick logs topped by an ornamented cornice up to 2 m in height.
According to the results of magnetometry, ten anomalies were identified, supposedly associated with kurgans. Five of them were excavated in the field campaign of 2017.
ONE was connected with the ‘empty’ ring ditch of Scythian time, FOUR - with kurgan burials, under the mounds of which catacombs were unearthed.
The ditch was found around the largest kurgan, the rest of the burials had no ditches
1. https://www.academia.edu/es/27924475/At_the_foot_of_Royal_Kurgans_The_latest_geoarchaeological_and_geophysical_studies
2. https://www.academia.edu/es/35098256/Magnetometric_studying_of_the_structure_of_Scythian_kurgans_and_their_peripheries_near_the_town_of_Pokrov_Dnipropetrovsk_region_Ukraine
The last Kurgan had his head chopped off in the 1980s
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The rest of the Scythians keyword, sorted:
Do they have any of Hunter Biden’s priceless paintings there?
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Another tough day for the Ukes.Rus took control of Yampil,Lyman,and parts of Ozerne. AS soon as tanks/artillery arrive,they will have fire control over the main supply road into Rubizne,Sever/L-chansk. The alt is a much longer route.
starts at about 1:15 at link
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRTq5KxoyKuquatzn2iF0Pg
The Scythians had a part in the ancestry of many of the people who live in those countries today-an important part of history-people who steal archeological treasures from graves, museums, etc to sell are the “real” barbarians-not the ancient people who owned the treasures...
Much more worried about the invaders coming across the Rio Grande.
It’s 1492 all over again.
Thanks for another fine list of links, this time Scythians. Do you know what their relationship was to the Parthians, who engaged with the Roman general Crassus and thoroughly trounced him and killed him and his son. Were they a more recent tribe of the same bloodline, or something different?
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