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Chapters: Pazyryk Burials, Egyptian Collection of the Hermitage Museum, Pereshchepina Treasure, Kul-Oba, Solokha, Oglakhty, Bobrinski Bucket. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Horseman, Pazyryk felt artifact, c.300 BC. For another felt artifact, see here.The Pazyryk (Russian: ) burials are a number of Iron Age tombs found in the Pazyryk Valley of the Ukok plateau in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, south of the modern city of Novosibirsk, Russia; the site is close to the borders with China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. The tombs are Scythian kurgans, that is barrow-like tomb mounds of larch logs covered over by large cairns of boulders and stones, dated to between the 6th and 3rd centuries BCE. The Pazyryk kurgans are the type site of the wider Pazyryk culture. The site is included in the Golden Mountains of Altai UNESCO World Heritage Site. In this part of the Ukok Plateau, many ancient Bronze Age barrow-like tomb mounds of larch logs covered over by large cairns of boulders and stones have been found. In Russian, such "barrows" are called kurgansa word of Turkic origin and the spectacular Scythian burials at Pazyryk introduced "kurgan" into general usage to describe such log-barrow burials. It, along with the Ukok Plateau, is included in the Golden Mountains of Altai UNESCO World Heritage Site. The bearers of the Pazyryk culture were horse-riding pastoral nomads of the steppe, and some may have accumulated great wealth through horse-trading with merchants in Persia, India and China. A gilded wooden figurine of a deer from the Pazyryk burials, 5th century BCThe first tombs were excavated by the archaeologist Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko beginning in the 1920s. While many of the tombs had already been looted in earlier times, Rudenko unearthed buried horse...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=102853