A 27-day archaeological dig in the village of Bolshaya Danilovka has unearthed the largest Scythian burial mound, reports Objective<\/a>\u00a0(RU).<\/p>\n
During excavations, archaeologists discovered two tombs: the first from the end of the sixth century and a second from the end of the fifth century BC.<\/p>\n
In the burials researchers found more than 20 artifacts – animal bones, arrowheads, fragments of ancient pottery vessels, part of the ancient bridle sets and even human remains of a\u00a030-33 year old man and a\u00a015-16 year old girl.<\/p>\n
“Here was buried the elite, there are no doubts. Because the mound had a height of not less than seven meters with a diameter of more than 40 meters initially. It dominated the whole area. If here was the burial of the elite, of course, here also buried ordinary people,” said Skoryi.<\/p>\n
Found artifacts will been given to a laboratory for reconstruction, then on to Kharkiv Historical Museum.<\/p>\n
BACKGROUND:<\/strong> The\u00a0Scythians were a large group of\u00a0Iranian. Eurasian nomads who inhabited large areas in the central\u00a0Eurasian\u00a0steppes\u00a0from about the 9th century BC until about the 1st century BC. The “classical Scythians” known to\u00a0ancient Greek historians\u00a0were located in the\u00a0northern Black Sea\u00a0and\u00a0fore-Caucasus\u00a0region.<\/p>\n
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