Did someone say “mummy”?
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How cool is THAT?
Will wait for expert opinion...................
Mark this down as a place and time which I will NOT be visiting once I get a time machine.
“...the smashing of the skulls may have been done soon after death....”
Uh oh! TWD.
The bird-figurine is a fairly obvious belt buckle. About 20 years ago in the Tien-Shan Mts portion of the Silk Road, a tall Scotsman, kilt and all, dating from the same period, was found in mummified condition. It was surmised then that these guys were making some hay on these trade routes to the East. If you just turn people loose, they can find and exploit markets!
Mummy seems to have “Donald Trump” hair.
Modern historians suppose that the wealth of the Bjarmians was due to their profitable trade along the Dvina, the Kama River and the Volga to Bolghar and other trading settlements in the south. Along this route, silver coins and other merchandise were exchanged for pelts and walrus tusks brought by the Bjarmians. In fact, burial sites in modern Perm Krai are the richest source of Sasanian and Sogdian silverware from Iran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarmaland
That pic 2nd from the bottom resembles Harry Reid...
Very interesting.
Geez! Everybody knows that!
Did someone say “mummy”?
What bird? I see a cannabis plant on that medallion.
Siberian Graveyard's Secret (More Redheads)
"YEKATERINBURG, Russia In a medieval Siberian graveyard a few miles south of the Arctic Circle, Russian scientists have unearthed mummies roughly 1,000 years old, clad in copper masks, hoops and plates - burial rites that archaeologists say they have never seen before."
"Among 34 shallow graves were five mummies shrouded in copper and blankets of reindeer, beaver, wolverine or bear fur. Unlike the remains of Egyptian pharaohs, the scientists say, the Siberian bodies were mummified by accident. The cold, dry permafrost preserved the remains, and the copper may have helped prevent oxidation."
Impossible. The climate never changed until SUV's station wagons Model T's were invented. Then it zoomed up totally unprecedented.