Posted on 01/19/2021 10:21:29 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Arzhan-2 burial of the Scythian ‘King’ and the ‘Queen’, found in 1997 and studied between 2001-2003 by Russian-German expedition is one the most extraordinary discoveries ever made by archeologists.
Now for the first time the features of the powerful couple buried in their gold-encrusted, awe-inspiring clothing can be seen in life-like sculptures thanks to work of Moscow Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, and Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography.
Two teams of anthropologists spent months meticulously building 3d models of the skulls, using laser scanning and photogrammetry to then re-create the faces of the people that ruled vast sways of steppes and mountains at the time when the Great Pyramids were getting built in Egypt.
(Excerpt) Read more at siberiantimes.com ...
No Nimrod is moving into the White Basement tomorrow...😀
Now for the first time the features of the powerful couple buried in their gold-encrusted, awe-inspiring clothing can be seen in life-like sculptures thanks to work of Moscow Ethnology and Anthropology and Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography. Pictures of the reconstructed skulls by Elizaveta Veselovskaya, Ravil Galeev. Picture of the reconstructed costume by Hermitage
LOL
“Beer hadn’t been yet discovered.”
Yeah, but they were hot boxing weed:
“The Scythians put the Seeds of this HEMP under the bags, upon the burning stones; and immediately a more agreeable vapor is emitted than from the incense burnt in Greece. The Company extremely transported with the scent, howl aloud.”
- Herodotus
An old Indo-European custom. In India it was called suttee, where the wife was expected to ascend the funeral pyre with the husband. The Vikings for a time usually got a slave to accompany the dead chieftain into the afterlife. In Homer, they sacrificed Trojan captives at Patroclus' funeral games.
Ah, the good old days. /s
Very cool.
Although they claim not, they still do that in India.
Thanks BenLurkin.
At least that explains her hat.
“Queen” looks like a Karen.
They're dead. I wouldn't be smiling either.....................
“Another theory suggests that the woman could have been the ‘King’s’ favourite concubine, sacrificed to accompany him to the afterlife along with 33 other people, including five children.
Fourteen stallions in full dress of gold, bronze and iron, and all taken from different herds were found inside the burial, too.”
This guy may have been more than a King. The huge treasure and all those sacrifices are extraordinary. The burial mound is 80 meters wide.
Cool post!! First I’ve ever heard of this find.
:D
Those are their “don’t harsh my buzz” faces.
In 440 B.C., Herodotus, an ancient Greek writer popularly dubbed the “father of history,” included an account of ritualistic cannabis use in Book IV of his acclaimed Histories. Recounting the funeral ceremonies of a nomadic Eurasian civilization, the historian reports, “The Scythians, as I said, take some of this hemp-seed, and … throw it upon the red hot stones.” When the hemp began to smoke and release a vapor, the “Scyths, delighted, shout[ed] for joy.”
Herodotus’ writings represent the earliest textual evidence of cannabis’ use as a mind-altering substance. Scientists have long lacked the physical evidence needed to verify his claims, but a new study published in the journal Science Advances is poised to set the record straight once and for all: As researchers from China and Germany report, wooden bowls, or braziers, excavated from a 2,500-year-old cemetery nestled in the mountains of western China bear significant traces of THC, the compound responsible for cannabis’ psychoactive effects.
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