• Thumbnail for Filippovka kurgans
    342968; 54.116974 The Filippovka kurgans (Ru: Филипповский курганный) are Late-Sauromatian to Early-Sarmatian culture kurgans, forming "a transition...
    20 KB (1,888 words) - 20:44, 5 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siberian Ice Maiden
    Mikhail Chepanov, to a group of kurgans located in a strip of territory disputed between Russia and China. A kurgan is a burial mound filled in with...
    13 KB (1,645 words) - 19:29, 30 April 2024
  • identified by their kurgan burial mounds and their numerous artifacts, such as Taksai kurgans (c.500 BCE). Other south Ural kurgans of the 6th-4th centuries...
    54 KB (6,116 words) - 22:59, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sarmatians
    typical transitional site between these two periods is found in the Filippovka kurgans, which are Late Sauromatian-Early Sarmatian, and dated to the 5th-4th...
    80 KB (8,681 words) - 19:12, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Salbyk kurgan
    200 km northwest of the Arzhan kurgan, and 400 km northeast of the Pazyryk kurgans. Salbyk kurgan reconstruction. The kurgan today, with only the monumental...
    5 KB (490 words) - 22:07, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Berel kurgan
    to 3rd centuries BCE. The Kurgans contained vast quantities of precious golden jewelry. Horses were buried in the kurgans next to their owner, and were...
    5 KB (434 words) - 08:54, 17 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Saka
    Kurgan 4, Burial 2, Filippovka kurgans, Late Sauromatian-Early Sarmatian, 5th-4th century BCE. "Golden Lady " from the Taksai kurgans, c. 500 BCE. The spectacular...
    200 KB (21,796 words) - 18:48, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Araltobe kurgan
    Araltobe barrow Araltobe golden vest (detail) Araltobe kurgan chief Taksai kurgan Filippovka kurgans Ualikhanova, Aruzhan (22 April 2023). "Archeologists...
    4 KB (300 words) - 04:50, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Issyk kurgan
    The Issyk kurgan, in south-eastern Kazakhstan, less than 20 km east from the Talgar alluvial fan, near Issyk, is a burial mound discovered in 1969. It...
    11 KB (1,127 words) - 20:24, 25 April 2024
  • display in the National Museum of Mongolian History, Ulaan Baatar. Two kurgans contained lacquer cups inscribed with Chinese characters believed to be...
    16 KB (1,831 words) - 16:01, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bezeklik Caves
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    19 KB (1,941 words) - 09:12, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sintashta culture
    in Trans-Urals, at the burial sites Sintashta II and Kamenny Ambar-5 (Kurgan 2) are c. 2200–2000 BCE. Chariots appear in southern Trans-Urals region...
    46 KB (4,900 words) - 19:11, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Taksai kurgans
    176884 The Taksai kurgans (more precisely Taksai-1, Ru: Таксайский курган) are a series of Saka or Sauromatian funeral mounds or kurgans, located in the...
    8 KB (868 words) - 04:28, 12 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oghuz Yabgu State
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    19 KB (2,446 words) - 20:05, 10 March 2024
  • Russia. Perhaps the most striking feature of the culture are huge royal kurgans fenced by stone plaques, with four vertical stelae marking the corners...
    20 KB (1,924 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2024
  • Aržan culture (redirect from Arzhan kurgan)
    Tasmola culture, as far as the southern Urals in the Late-Sauromatian Filippovka kurgans. "Animal style" deer, (7-6th century BC) Tuva. Pectoral plate, from...
    35 KB (3,929 words) - 01:18, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kucha
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    37 KB (3,961 words) - 17:31, 18 February 2024
  • Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    48 KB (5,264 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mal'ta–Buret' culture
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    34 KB (2,904 words) - 13:07, 7 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Central Asia
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    141 KB (13,041 words) - 00:29, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sarazm
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    21 KB (2,210 words) - 07:19, 28 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Otrar
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    15 KB (1,815 words) - 18:33, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Khanate of Khiva
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    34 KB (4,013 words) - 01:02, 27 April 2024
  • Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    79 KB (7,354 words) - 11:19, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bactria
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    38 KB (4,368 words) - 14:54, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    18 KB (1,726 words) - 05:03, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sagly-Bazhy culture
    Sagly-Bazhy culture (category Kurgans)
    within the Turan-Uyuk depression, is home to gigantic stone and earth kurgans with graves of tribal chiefs. Jeong et al. 2020, "the Sagly/Uyuk culture...
    7 KB (569 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2024
  • Mountains, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. The mummies are buried in long barrows (or kurgans) similar to the tomb mounds of Scythian culture in Ukraine. The type site...
    21 KB (2,039 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the central steppe
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    22 KB (3,054 words) - 19:46, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yuezhi
    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
    78 KB (8,987 words) - 21:05, 26 March 2024