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Medieval Kurgans With Mustaches Unearthed in Kazakhstan
Archaeology Magazine ^ | September 5, 2024 | editors / unattributed

Posted on 09/06/2024 9:32:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Ten medieval burial mounds, or kurgans, have been discovered in central Kazakhstan, according to a Live Science report. Archaeologist Zhanbolat Utubaev of the Margulan Institute of Archaeology said that three of the mounds are topped with stone ridges known as mustaches. Excavation of one of the kurgans without a mustache uncovered the remains of a man and a triangular arrowhead. The kurgans are thought to have been constructed by a nomadic group prior to the Mongol conquest of the region in the thirteenth century, Utubaev concluded.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; kazakhstan; kurgans; middleages
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Excavation of a kurgan in Ulytau, Kazakhstan
Margulan Institute of Archaeology
Margulan Institute of Archaeology

1 posted on 09/06/2024 9:32:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Sorry, no mustache pics.

2 posted on 09/06/2024 9:32:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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3 posted on 09/06/2024 9:36:29 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: SunkenCiv

Rats I wanted to see the mustaches


4 posted on 09/06/2024 9:37:15 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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5 posted on 09/06/2024 9:44:50 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal (1<i>)
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To: SunkenCiv

‘Kurgan’ immediately brought to mind the movie Highlander as that was what they called the villain in the movie.


6 posted on 09/06/2024 9:45:54 AM PDT by reed13k
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

You beat me by a minute - LOL


7 posted on 09/06/2024 9:46:29 AM PDT by reed13k
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To: markman46
I wonder if they were as epic as this guys...

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8 posted on 09/06/2024 9:48:09 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: SunkenCiv

Here is a picture of a Kurgan warrior.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/88/74/8a/88748a3ef58d666f495cb9de1f212e5f.jpg

The Kurgan survived until 1986 and was killed in New York City.


9 posted on 09/06/2024 9:53:36 AM PDT by nvskibum
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To: SunkenCiv

There can only be one, grandma!

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/—4uEWhpJ4Nc/TzsdIEdPVbI/AAAAAAAABfA/LhD_Fvl9DoA/s1600/Highlander11.jpg


10 posted on 09/06/2024 9:54:50 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Clancy Brown stole the show as the Kurgan.

Highlander was a good movie although also very sad (and you have to pretend all the sequels don’t exist). The only uplifting parts of the movie for the protagonist, Connor, were when he met and fell in love with Heather, even though it’s rather depressing how he was banished from his clan’s village, also when he met Ramirez and learned he had a chance to survive, even though Ramirez dies soon after, and then you have to watch his love Heather grow old and die, and his tryst with Brenda, although the Kurgan is hunting him down. I suppose the ending was supposed to be a happy one when he won “the prize”, but all of the historical flashbacks were slightly mystical but very sullen and depressing, and all of the NewYork cuts were rock and roll (Queen soundtrack) and anxious.

I never saw the movie in ‘86 but got a chance to catch it in a campus theater years later during a reshowing. Everyone was cheering for the kurgan, and the theater was loud when he had his scenes.

Oh.... this thread was about actual Kurgans. Heh


11 posted on 09/06/2024 10:10:32 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Magnum44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56wQYTkURcg&t=86


12 posted on 09/06/2024 10:57:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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oh man i wish i could grow a stash like that


13 posted on 09/06/2024 11:10:40 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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Clancy Brown stole the show as the Kurgan.

That he did. And he got almost nothing for it. He got royally screwed on that deal. I always get a kick of the Kurgan doing the voice of Mr. Krabs for SpongeBob SquarePants.

14 posted on 09/06/2024 11:17:05 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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"Highlander was a good movie ...."

Starring a Swiss as a Scot and a Scot as a Spaniard?

And a battle scene featuring Clan MacLeod (whose seat is Dunvegan castle, on nearby Isle of Skye) on the front lawn of Eilean Donan castle, seat of Clan Mackenzie?

Ach, sgudal!

15 posted on 09/06/2024 11:17:20 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: SunkenCiv

Great Success!


16 posted on 09/06/2024 11:17:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Paal Gulli
Starring a Swiss as a Scot and a Scot as a Spaniard?

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It always seemed very odd to me too, except that it made sense casting-wise.

Connery never would have worked as the naive young castoff. He is 007. Ramirez was a much better role for him, even though he is a Scot and he played a spanish egyptian.

Also, I always wondered if there was a strange reason for casting Lambert in this roll, which is that he actually resembles the actor Ian Charleson who played the Scot Eric Liddell 5 years previous in the movie Chariots of Fire.


17 posted on 09/06/2024 12:31:00 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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I remember watching it with friends in the late 80's and we burst out laughing when the Kurgan taunts the nuns in the church with his tongue hanging out. "Hello ladies!"

Recently I saw it again and the scene where he watches his wife age to Queen's “Who Wants to Live Forever” just struck me as profoundly sad.

18 posted on 09/07/2024 12:18:50 PM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal (1<i>)
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“Of course they were….”


19 posted on 09/10/2024 2:50:56 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again . https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FU)
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To: z3n

Best line in whole movie.

Hi. I’m Candy.

…Of course you are.

/I was rooting for the Kurgan once Connery was gone


20 posted on 09/10/2024 2:53:08 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again . https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FU)
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