[blam]

"Inevitably, the archeological discovery is being trumpeted as comparable to that of the Golden Man, found in the Issyk burial mound just outside Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty, in 1969. The Golden Man, who [i]s believed to have been a young Scythian prince who lived in the 4th or 5th century BC, was interred wearing some 4,000 gold ornaments.

Golden Man

The 4,000 year old mummies found in China wore tall pointed hats such as this one...they were mostly made of felt.

[gleeaikin]

The noble women found in that area from that time period and earlier also had 3 foot high headdresses. This seems similar to the tall combined crown of upper and lower Egypt. Almost 2,000 years BC Sesostres II (I think?) sent Egyptians to settle on the East side of the Black Sea. Perhaps the Scythians and related peoples picked up the custom from them.

[Grimmy]

You mean they all wore big ol’ dunce caps, in public, on purpose?

[ZULU]

My conehead is taller than your conehead.

[SunkenCiv]

was interred wearing some 4,000 gold ornaments.

Maybe he was just a great big princess. :')