Warrior’s grave reveals ornate Scythian treasures
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Heritage Daily ^
| November 19, 2021 | RAS Institute of Archaeology
Archaeologists excavating a warrior’s grave have discovered Scythian treasures in the Ostrogozhsky District of Voronezh region, Russia.The Scythians were an ancient nomadic people living primarily in the region known as Scythia, which today comprises the Eurasian steppes of Kazakhstan, the Russian steppes of the Siberian, Ural, Volga and Southern regions, and eastern
Ukraine.Excavations were conducted by the Don Expedition from the Institute of Archaeology at the Russian Academy of Science, where the researchers have been excavating the Devitsa V necropolis that consists of 19 burial mounds.A study of mound 7 in the centre of the cemetery revealed a wooden tomb...
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Levin posts Scythian Reborn's vanity - calls it a smear
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Mark Levin Facebook ^
| 8/31/2016 | Mark Levin
Looks like Mark is still lurking.
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Invaders seized a museum in Melitopol, where Scythian gold is stored
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https://news.obozrevatel.com ^
| 28.04.2022 | Dmitry Ivancheskul
Russian invaders seized the City Museum of local lore of Melitopol, which stored Scythian gold. The
location of historical relics was handed over to the enemy by local collaborators. This is stated in the message of the Zaporozhye regional military administration. The museum housed relics discovered by archaeologists in the 1950s. "There is information that the Russian military has seized the Melitopol City Museum of local lore," Ilya said in a statement. The place where historical relics are kept was indicated to the enemy by local collaborators. In addition, traditional looting for the invaders is gaining momentum in Melitopol, but...
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Siberian Gravediggers Find 2,000 Year Old Scythian-style Cemetery
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Haaretz ^
| January 1, 2023 | Viktoria Grinboim Rich
While bulldozing land for a new burial ground, workers startled to discover an old one, belonging to a newly identified culture.All they meant to do is expand a local cemetery. But
as gravediggers in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, were removing a hill to make room for the newly deceased in 2018, they made an unexpected discovery. That hill turned out to be an ancient burial mound created by a Scythian-type culture over 2,000 years ago.The question is which Scythian-type culture.Our story begins in the 19th century, when a new cemetery called Shinnoye was established on the outskirts of Krasnoyarsk, the second biggest...
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Soviet Bombers and Scythian Mummies: The Archaeology Uncovered By Climate Change
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Gizmodo ^
| August 26, 2015 | Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan
In Poland, severe drought has revealed the remains of a Soviet fighter plane that went down in 1945. It’s
far from the first (or last) archaeological site that climate change is revealing, in some cases for the first time in millennia. Melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, and historic droughts are all playing a part in some of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of the last few years. It’s a bittersweet phenomenon—that, as our planet changes, new pieces of our past will be revealed while other will decay. In an AP story this week, we learn of two finds that have surfaced...
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Archaeologists found the burial of Scythian Amazon with a gold head dress near the Don River
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Phys.org ^
| Decenber 20, 2918 | Institute of Archaeology of Russian Academy of Sciences
The burial of the Amazon with a headdress made of precious metal dated back to the second half of the 4th century BC was found by the members of the Don expedition of IA RAS during the examination of the cemetery Devitsa V of Voronezh Oblast. This is the first ever found
in Middle Don river, and well preserved ceremonial headdress of a rich Scythian women, earlier archaeologists found only fragments of such headdresses. Valerii Guliaev, the head of Don expedition, announced the first results of the examination on the 6th of December at the session of Academic Council of...
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