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  • 1,500-year-old gold buckles depicting ruler 'majestically sitting on a throne' discovered in Kazakhstan

    01/07/2024 4:57:10 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 21 replies
    Live Science ^ | January 2, 2024 | Tom Metcalfe
    The ornaments contain the earliest known depiction of a Göktürk "khagan," who probably lived in the sixth century.Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered two gold ornaments in a 1,500-year-old tomb that feature the earliest known depictions of the great khan, or "khagan," of the Göktürks — a nomadic confederation of Turkic-speaking peoples who occupied the region for around three centuries, according to an archaeologist who excavated the site...The finds are from the Eleke Sazy site near Kazakhstan's remote eastern borders with China, Mongolia and Russian Siberia, where Samashev and his colleagues have worked since 2016.The sixth-century Göktürk tomb holds the remains...