Medieval Kurgans With Mustaches Unearthed in Kazakhstan

Archaeology Magazine ^ | September 5, 2024 | editors / unattributed

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

Excavation of a kurgan in Ulytau, Kazakhstan

Margulan Institute of Archaeology

[SunkenCiv]

Sorry, no mustache pics.

[Magnum44]

[markman46]

Rats I wanted to see the mustaches

[GOP_Party_Animal]

[reed13k]

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

[reed13k]

You beat me by a minute - LOL

[Manic_Episode]

I wonder if they were as epic as this guys...

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[nvskibum]

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.

[Jonty30]

There can only be one, grandma!

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

[z3n]

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

[SunkenCiv]

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

[markman46]

oh man i wish i could grow a stash like that

[IYAS9YAS]

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.

[Paal Gulli]

"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!

[dfwgator]

Great Success!

[z3n]

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.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

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.

[Salamander]

“Of course they were….”

[Salamander]

Best line in whole movie.

Hi. I’m Candy.

…Of course you are.

/I was rooting for the Kurgan once Connery was gone