• The Noin-Ula burial site (Mongolian: Ноён уулын булш, Noyon uulyn bulsh, also Noyon Uul) consist of more than 200 large burial mounds, approximately square...
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    scientists to move their activities across the border to Mongolia. Noin-Ula burial site Horse burial Russian: Пазырык González-Ruiz, Mercedes (9 November 2012)...
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  • embroidered rug discovered in the year 2010 in a Xiongnu burial chamber in Mongolia's Noin-Ula burial site. This depicts figures conjectured to be those of kings...
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    one side). Unfortunately the Central burial site had been robbed but the side grave was undisturbed. The burial chamber in the side grave was constructed...
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    Steppes in the 5th century BC, were found undisturbed in a subterranean burial chamber. Natalia Polosmak and her team discovered the Ice Maiden during...
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    Noin-Ula burial site.: 77–82  At the same time, Mihara Moji and Suzuki both believed that the front and rear circular tombs were related to the Noin-Ula...
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    recovered from a nomad burial site near Lake Baikal in Siberia, Noin Ula, supplementing an earlier discovery at the same site), the pieces dating from...
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    DYNASTIC EGYPT ◁ ▷ Burial sites were in the shape of a large circle of 15 meters diameter surrounded by a wall. In some of the burial chambers, valuables...
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  • recovered from a nomad burial site near Lake Baikal in Siberia, Noin Ula, supplementing an earlier discovery at the same site), the pieces dating from...
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  • Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan Kashgar Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi...
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    which is considered the earliest Scythian kurgan. Dating of additional burial sites situated in east and west Eurasia confirmed eastern kurgans as older...
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    the Petrovka culture slightly later, from c. 1900 BCE. In Cis-Urals, burial sites Berezovaya and Tanabergen II showed Sintashta culture established there...
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    Western sites. Foremost among the latter is the site of Lchashen in Armenia, between the Caspian and Black Seas. Dated to about 1500 BCE, a burial at Lchashen...
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    The Sintashta site on the upper Ural River, noted for its chariot burials and kurgans containing horse burials, is considered the type site of the Sintashta...
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  • to the tomb mounds of Scythian culture in Ukraine. The type site are the Pazyryk burials of the Ukok Plateau. Many artifacts and human remains have been...
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    Yuezhi nobleman and priest over a fire altar. Noin-Ula....
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    Chemurchek culture (category Archaeological sites in Mongolia)
    various characteristics of West European origin. Another Chemurcheck burial site was discovered in Yagshiin khuduu in Bulgan soum, Khovd aimag, which...
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    Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan Kashgar Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi...
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    ancient Greeks as the Oxus River), an area covering ancient Bactria. Its sites were discovered and named by the Soviet archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi (1976)...
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  • Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan Kashgar Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi...
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  • Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan Kashgar Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi...
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    Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan Kashgar Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi...
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    Issyk-Kul (category Archaeological sites in Kyrgyzstan)
    winter, it rarely freezes over due to high salinity. The lake is a Ramsar site of globally significant biodiversity and forms part of the Issyk-Kul Biosphere...
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    disasters and wars that passed over the town have done their part. Now, at the site of the once-prosperous town, there remain only ruins overgrown with grass...
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    Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan Kashgar Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi...
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    in 2012, production at the major Kumtor gold mine fell by 60% after the site was perturbed by geological movements. According to the World Bank, 33.7%...
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    Gonur Depe (category Archaeological sites in Turkmenistan)
    and in burial 3310 parts of a stallion's body were found, the stallion lacked its head, rump, and tail, and was considered as a cult burial of a domestic...
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    Uzbekistan. They are included on UNESCO’s Tentative List for World Heritage Site status as the Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm. The Khorezm Oasis is an...
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  • majority of Afanasievo burials reported to date are located in the Altai mountains and Upper Yenisei regions, the Early Bronze Age (EBA) site of Shatar Chuluu...
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    Khalchayan (category Archaeological sites in Uzbekistan)
    Khalchayan Khalchayan (also Khaltchaïan) is an archaeological site, thought to be a small palace or a reception hall, located near the modern town of Denov...
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