Gold treasure of Kurgan 4 at Filippovka burial ground, Russia
From 2004 to 2007, nine burial mounds were excavated at the Filippovka burial ground, located in the Orenburg region of Russia. The most significant burial is a huge royal kurgan (Kurgan 4) that was largely undisturbed. Excavation of this kurgan yielded burial goods of precious metals, examples of sophisticated Animal Style art, and important new information on burial ritual. A depiction of an Achaemenid king on an object found in Kurgan 15 suggests a burial date in the second half of the fifth century B.C.E.; other finds, however, suggest a fourth-century B.C.E. date. In either case, the burial belongs to the Early Sarmatian culture of the southern Ural region and provides significant information on the cultural origin of the southern Ural early nomadic population. AJA online, jan.2010.
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The Mal'ta Buret' culture in Siberia, Russia
The vast territory of North and Central Asia represents a poorly understood region in the prehistoric era, despite intensive excavations that have been conducted during the past century. The earliest human occupation in this region probably began sometime around 40 000 years ago. Small groups of big-game hunters likely migrated into this region from lands to the south and southwest, confronting a harsh climate and long, dry winters. By about 22 000 BP, two principal cultural traditions had developed in Siberia and northeastern Asia: the Mal'ta - Buret' and the Afontova Gora-Oshurkovo.
The Mal'ta - Buret' tradition is known from a vast area spanning west of Lake Baikal and the Yenisey River. The site of Mal'ta is composed of a series of subterranean houses made of large animal bones and reindeer antler which had likely been covered with animal skins and sod to protect inhabitants from the severe, prevailing northerly winds. Among the artistic accomplishments evident at Mal'ta are remains of expertly carved bone, ivory, and antler objects. Figurines of birds and human females are the most commonly found items. The type sites are named for the villages of Mal'ta (Мальта), Usolsky District and Buret' (Буреть), Bokhansky District. The soft sign (Ь, ь), also known as the yer, translated into English as an apostrophe as in Mal'ta or Buret', makes the preceding consonant less pronounced.
The Mal'ta site is located on the left bank of the Belaya, a tributary of the Angara, itself a tributary of the Yenisei, and it is one hundred kilometres northwest of Irkutsk and Lake Baikal. Discovered in 1928, it has had many excavations carried out successively by Sergei N. Zamiatnine, G. P. Sosnovskii and especially by Mr. Mikhail Gerasimov, who worked there for over thirty years.
Coordinates: 52.9°N 103.5°E
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (Михаи́л Миха́йлович Гера́симов) was born 2nd September 1907, in St. Petersburg, and died 21st 1970, in Moscow. He was a Soviet anthropologist-sculptor and archaeologist. Doctor of historical sciences (1956) and director of the laboratory of plastic reconstruction at the Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1950-70).
Paleolithic art of Europe and Asia falls into two broad categories: mural art and portable art. Mural art is concentrated in southwest France, Spain, and northern Italy. The tradition of portable art, predominantly carvings in ivory and antler, spans the distance across western Europe into North and Central Asia. It is suggested that the broad territory in which the tradition of carving and imagery is shared is evidence of cultural contact and common religious beliefs. Some of the most well known examples are the so-called Venus figurines. One such figurine, illustrated here, is from the site of Mal'ta and dates to around 23 000 BP. It is carved from the ivory of a mammoth, an extinct type of elephant highly prized in hunting that migrated in herds across the Ice Age tundra of Europe and Asia. Like most Paleolithic figurine carving, the image is carved in the round in a highly stylised manner. Typically, there are exaggerated characteristics such as breasts and buttocks, which may have been symbols of fertility. Height 87 mm.
A boy whose remains were found near Mal'ta is usually known by the abbreviation MA-1 (or MA1). According to research published since 2013, MA-1 belonged to a population related to the genetic ancestors of Siberians, American Indians, and Bronze Age Yamnaya people of the Eurasian steppe. Ancient Siberian’s skeleton yields links to Europe and Native Americans.In particular MA-1 was found to be genetically close to modern-day Native Americans, Kets, Mansi, Nganasans and Yukaghirs.
Russian and German Cemeteries, Rossoshka, Volgograd Region Wolgograd Victory Day Parade #rus
Rossoshka WWII Russian and German Cemeteries - Stalingrad Battlefield Volgograd
Visit Volgograd formerly known as Stalingrad - We will join the Victory Day Parade in Wolgograd and celebrate 9th of May with the locals. We also going to see the war memorials and war cemetery.
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Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. It was first inaugurated in the 16 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. Though the official inauguration occurred in 1945 the holiday became a non-labour day only in 1965 and only in certain Soviet republics.
In East Germany, 8 May was observed as Liberation Day from 1950 to 1966, and was celebrated again on the 40th anniversary in 1985. In 1975, a Soviet-style Victory Day was celebrated on 9 May. Since 2002, the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has observed a commemoration day known as the Day of Liberation from National Socialism, and the End of the Second World War.
After regaining their independence from the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries now commemorate the end of World War II on 8 May, the Victory in Europe Day.
During the Soviet Union's existence, 9 May was celebrated throughout the USSR and in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Though the holiday was introduced in many Soviet republics between 1946 and 1950, it only became a non-labour day in the Ukrainian SSR in 1963 and the Russian SSR in 1965. In the Russian SSR a weekday off (usually a Monday) was given if 9 May fell on a Saturday or Sunday.
The celebration of Victory Day continued during subsequent years. The war became a topic of great importance in cinema, literature, history lessons at school, the mass media, and the arts. The ritual of the celebration gradually obtained a distinctive character with a number of similar elements: ceremonial meetings, speeches, lectures, receptions and fireworks.
In Russia during the 1990s, the 9 May holiday was not celebrated with large Soviet-style mass demonstrations due to the policies of successive Russian governments. Following Vladimir Putin's rise to power, the Russian government began promoting the prestige of the governing regime and history, and national holidays and commemorations became a source of national self-esteem. Victory Day in Russia has increasingly become a celebration in which popular culture plays a central role. The 60th and 70th anniversaries of Victory Day in Russia (2005 and 2015) became the largest popular holidays since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 2015 around 30 leaders, including those of China and India, attended the 2015 celebration, while Western leaders boycotted the ceremonies because of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
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Muzei AKTOBE Tour - Regional Museum of Local History in Aktobe - ENGLISH SUBTITLES
The Regional Museum of Local History in Aktobe is a large research, cultural
and educational center for preservation and propaganda of the cultural
legacy. The museum was formed in 1929 at the initiative of the local
ethnographers.
The fund of the museum accounts for 95 thousand exhibits related to the history
and spiritual culture of the people. There are mineralogy, paleontology, botany,
archaeology, ethnography, applied art and jewelry, numismatics, rare books,
original documents and collections of photo materials. Museum collections were
exhibited in Moscow, Orenburg, Orsk, Ankara, Istanbul and other cities.
Scientific research allowed coming to conclusion that Sarmatian culture flourished
in the area of present Aktobe in V-VI centuries BC. In the course of archaeological
excavations of ancient kurgans – burial mounds Beskopa, Syntas and Nagornyi,
some gold objects and household items crafted by some Sarmatian master in
‘animal style’ were found. There were inlaid bone spoons proving that culture was
rather developed in that area as far back as 2500 years ago.
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Priceless Ancient Gold Jewelry Found In Kazakhstan (Jul. 30, 2018)
An astonishing stash of 2,800-year-old gold jewellery has been unearthed by archaeologists in Kazakhstan. Some 3,000 golden and precious items were found in a burial mound in the remote Tarbagatai mountains. The treasure trove - described as 'priceless' - is believed to belong to royal or elite members of the Saka people who held sway in central Asia eight centuries before the birth of Christ.
Kurgan | Wikipedia audio article
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A kurgan (Russian: курга́н) is a tumulus, a type of burial mound or barrow, heaped over a burial chamber, often of wood. The Russian noun, which is already attested in Old East Slavic, is borrowed from an unidentified Turkic language, compare Modern Turkish kurğan, which means fortress. They are mounds of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Associated with its use in Soviet archaeology, the word is now widely used for tumuli in the context of Eastern European and Central Asian archaeology.
The earliest kurgans date to the 4th millennium BC in the Caucasus, and are associated with the Indo-Europeans. Kurgans were built in the Eneolithic, Bronze, Iron, Antiquity and Middle Ages, with ancient traditions still active in Southern Siberia and Central Asia. Kurgan cultures are divided archeologically into different sub-cultures, such as Timber Grave, Pit Grave, Scythian, Sarmatian, Hunnish and Kuman-Kipchak.
Many placenames contain the word kurgan.
Jews founded Thracia, Scythia & Khazaria - Pt2
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen
1 Kings 4:26
3,000 yrs ago the term chariot was probably also used to describe wagons, so what I put forth in this video is the possibility that King Solomon had constructed large numbers of wagons which he would use to transport Israelites along with his golden horde out of Israel to Osh,
With two horses required to pull a wagon, and with 1 Kings 4:26 saying Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, it may be that Solomon had 20,000 wagons. Surely no king in ancient times would amass that many wagons unless he had plans for them.
All the evidence is showing that King Solomon arrived in Osh, Khazaria, about 3,000 yrs ago with chariots pulled by bulls (carrying hundreds of tons of his gold). This means Khazarians were originally from Israel to begin with. King Solomon's Israelites founded the Thracian-Scythian empires.
The incredibly exquisite gold being unearthed in Bulgarian tombs are most likely originally part of Solomon's golden treasure horde. Here is a golden throne arm rest, most likely from the throne of King Solomon
If King Solomon did take his golden treasure lode to the safety of the Fergana Valley, as my research shows he may have, Saimaluu Tash is the likely location for Solomon's treasure tomb. It is the most inaccessible location in the area, impossible to drive to without 4 WD vehicles, and even then people still have to walk 10km. At that point, bee hives are everywhere. Saimaluu Tash is so the best place to put a treasure tomb.
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King Solomon promoted the Book of Proverbs using Moses Oral Law, which means it was only spoken, not written down until centuries later. Three thousand years ago, all the kings of the world came to King Solomon to learn these wisdom proverbs. Those kings returned to their respective regions to teach those wisdom teachings to their own peoples. Solomon would apparently oversee this and was given a percentage or tithing of the wealth generated by these regions (usually 10 percent). This allowed King Solomon to amass hundreds of tons of gold, much of which was carved and cast into golden lion heads, animals, flowers and more. King Solomon became king in additional regions, thus increasing his golden treasure lode even more. I believe Solomon may have taken his treasure out of Israel along with a good number of Israelites, using their chariots, and arrived in Osh 3,000 yrs ago, as legends claim. I believe it's possible Solomon built himsdelf a large treasure tomb in the Fergana valley and if so, it should still be there today unopened. :)
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History of Russia (PARTS 1-5) - Rurik to Revolution
From Prince Rurik to the Russian Revolution, this is a compilation of the first 5 episodes of Epic History TV's History of Russia.
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A note on 'Ivan the Terrible' - in Russia, Ivan IV has the epithet 'Гро́зный' meaning 'Great' or 'Formidable'. So why is he known as Ivan 'the Terrible' in English? Because he was evil or useless or because of anti-Russian bias? No, because 'Terrible' in English also means awesome or formidable - this was well understood when 'Гро́зный' was first translated into English centuries ago, but now fewer people understand this. (see definitions 3 & 4 here: The name stuck, and Ivan IV has been known as Ivan the Terrible ever since.
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VOLGOGRAD - STALINGRAD
70 years ago: In memory of the capitulation of Germany on 02/02/1943 at the Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major and decisive battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943and was marked by constant close-quarters combat and lack of regard for military and civilian casualties. It is among the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with the higher estimates of combined casualties amounting to nearly two million. The heavy losses inflicted on the German army made it a significant turning point in the whole war.After the Battle of Stalingrad, German forces never recovered their earlier strength, and attained no further strategic victories in the East.
The city became famous for its resistance, extensive damage, and death toll during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II. On the following dates Volgograd's name officially reverts to Stalingrad: February 2, May 9 (Victory Day (9 May)), June 22 (start of Operation Barbarossa), August 23, September 2 (Victory over Japan Day), and November 19 (start of Operation Uranus).
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The legends of Kazakhs №7 (30.12.2016) - Kazakh TV
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Introduction to the mounds of Besshatyr;
The birth of the legend. The legend about the Golden man;
Peculiarities of mounds. Interesting facts.
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5-5 Scythian Ice Maiden - Indo-Europeans in the Altai 55
The Scythians or Scyths (Greek: Σκύθης, Σκύθοι) were an Ancient Iranian people of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who throughout Classical Antiquity dominated the Pontic-Caspian steppe, known at the time as Scythia. By Late Antiquity the closely-related Sarmatians came to dominate the Scythians in this area. Much of the surviving information about the Scythians comes from the Greek historian Herodotus (c. 440 BC) in his Histories and Ovid in his poem of exile Epistulae ex Ponto, and archaeologically from the exquisite goldwork found in Scythian burial mounds in Ukraine and Southern Russia.
The name Scythian has also been used to refer to various peoples seen as similar to the Scythians, or who lived anywhere in a vast area covering present-day Central Asia, Russia, and Ukraine—known until medieval times as Scythia. The name of the Scythians has also been used in reference to the Goths.
AUDIOTEC Museum Of Dreams 2018
I want to address you very much even with an intellectual theme for you.
At the moment everything is brilliant and simple, I have for you a chic
theme and work that stuns those who understand at least half
My brilliant phenomenon that is in my eyes and notice
oko, this is the information field of the stellar system, since everyone is in it.
Scientists will never be able to conquer this scientific phenomenon, I just suggest
you come to this top and if you invite me to the studio
invite scientists of the highest category of Russia, the most intellectual
countries in the world if I'm not mistaken in my opinion, since we are not only
the first flew into space without talking about other genius abilities ...
Well, I'll start about myself and I hope you will be interested. I'm Sergey Kokoteev
Anatolyevich citizen of the Russian Federation, respectively, a resident
Kurgan region from the city of Shadrinsk, where he was born in 1981
and live to this day unfortunately in the hostel
In 2010, I noticed that if I increase my eye in approximately
the whole screen and pause this video, then the following facts occur
Looking at the pupil of the eye, I will cite several relevant examples and
I'll try to get to you at the end, then it came and you could at least some part of it
understand this brilliant phenomenon, in short the essence is that.
After looking at it begins to increase, a person begins to approach closer
and there is a docking note not only the eye but also the intellect as a minimum,
further with time, more accurately, with every second, beautiful
and amazing views, you certainly excuse me, but in my eyes,
In general, children see as in the cinema various space asteroids, planets
our galaxy, also nature, seas, lakes and so on, this is only one percent
from a billion of what the planet of the inhabitants of our land sees, But people have
the disadvantage is mainly in adults since the children see absolutely everything 99%
I'm sorry about that, but notice from me that everything is all right and every second hundreds
view my photos and video files on the Internet at home theaters and even
on photo paper, that is, I am in this respect perfection
You probably do not understand and I'm very sorry for you, but you remind me
primitive system, in principle it is not surprising, but still I will try
you explain ..
When I get up at full height and I'm photographed with a digital camera
my eyes. then from the camera pumped into the computer this small
a digital file from the computer is printed.
puts on photographic paper you will not believe but only simple paints. creates a copy
digital file and, as a result, the eye more accurately works on photo paper as well
in the Internet.home movie theaters, computers, tablets, phones, smartphones
and even iPhones and this is just a slight hint of who I am ,,,
I'll add a couple more lines because you still can not understand and I'm sorry for you.
although you work on television and probably still are not sincerely
sick people ,,,
In general, children see everything, and from adults and elderly people from 60% see 100%.
roughly speaking, see 50% of 100, that is, half of the planet sees this
But they can not understand how it all comes about
it turns out. unfortunately, but you can not, even call me
by phone +79129766024 to agree with me about the meeting or at least your
come to me, not to mention the scientists of the highest category in your studio
And let them then show their intellect and talk and I hope not
disgrace further in the whole universe, as it happens with my arrival
on the Internet in 2010 and the creation of my site
oko-sergius.ucoz.ru This magical architect of the star system,
Waiting for your suggestions...
A real magical artist and poet Kokoteev Sergey Anatolyevich
Russian NATO Base: Russia using former top secret NATO naval base in the Arctic
Russia is using a former top secret NATO base situated in the heart of the Arctic Circle, reports AFP. The Olavsvern Naval Base is hidden in a mountain near the Norwegian town of Tromso.
The base was sold in 2013 by Norway's then president Jens Stoltenberg - now the NATO Secretary General - to a Norwegian businessperson for just 5 million USD. Russian state energy giants Gazprom are now reportedly renting it as a research facility.
Former Norwegian Vice Admiral Einar Skorgen said the country had sold the only base worthy of the name that they had up there. It's pure madness.
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Stalingrad 1943 Volgograd 2013 (This will amaze you!)
Photographic Art Stalingrad against the background of Volgograd.
Putin celebrates Festival of Knowledge
Russian President Vladimir Putin wished all Russian school children the best of luck at the start of the new academic year during a visit to Kurgan school № 7 on Monday. Pupils greeted the president with smiles as their school was recently renovated and equipped with the latest furniture and technology.
The visit was celebrating the Festival of Knowledge, a Russian festival for the first day in school calendar. This year the the first of September fell on a Sunday, so the visit was postponed until the next working day, Monday September 2.
For around 90,000 Russian children, Monday will have been their first ever day at school. According to tradition, each year pupils, accompanied by their parents, bring flowers with them to give to their new teachers.
Dinner with Veterans Victory Day Parade Stalingrad Tours Volgograd Victory Day Parade #WWII
Russian Veterans Dinner during Victory Day in Volgograd, Russia - Memories from the second World War (WWII)
Visit Wolgograd formerly known as Stalingrad - We will join the Victory Day Parade in Wolgograd and celebrate 9th of May with the locals. We also going to see the war memorials and war cemetery.
Join us on a wonderful history tour to Russia and Russian culture.
Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. It was first inaugurated in the 16 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. Though the official inauguration occurred in 1945 the holiday became a non-labour day only in 1965 and only in certain Soviet republics.
In East Germany, 8 May was observed as Liberation Day from 1950 to 1966, and was celebrated again on the 40th anniversary in 1985. In 1975, a Soviet-style Victory Day was celebrated on 9 May. Since 2002, the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has observed a commemoration day known as the Day of Liberation from National Socialism, and the End of the Second World War.
After regaining their independence from the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries now commemorate the end of World War II on 8 May, the Victory in Europe Day.
During the Soviet Union's existence, 9 May was celebrated throughout the USSR and in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Though the holiday was introduced in many Soviet republics between 1946 and 1950, it only became a non-labour day in the Ukrainian SSR in 1963 and the Russian SSR in 1965. In the Russian SSR a weekday off (usually a Monday) was given if 9 May fell on a Saturday or Sunday.
The celebration of Victory Day continued during subsequent years. The war became a topic of great importance in cinema, literature, history lessons at school, the mass media, and the arts. The ritual of the celebration gradually obtained a distinctive character with a number of similar elements: ceremonial meetings, speeches, lectures, receptions and fireworks.
In Russia during the 1990s, the 9 May holiday was not celebrated with large Soviet-style mass demonstrations due to the policies of successive Russian governments. Following Vladimir Putin's rise to power, the Russian government began promoting the prestige of the governing regime and history, and national holidays and commemorations became a source of national self-esteem. Victory Day in Russia has increasingly become a celebration in which popular culture plays a central role. The 60th and 70th anniversaries of Victory Day in Russia (2005 and 2015) became the largest popular holidays since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 2015 around 30 leaders, including those of China and India, attended the 2015 celebration, while Western leaders boycotted the ceremonies because of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
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Holiday Traditions featuring Maftuna Tojiboeva from Uchkurgan, Namangan, Uzbekistan
See how international students at Murray State University celebrate the holidays.
Ukraine Soldiers' Portraits: New Chernivtsi exhibition to raise money for Ukrainian army
A Canadian artist with Ukrainian origins Taras Polataiko has opened an exhibition called “War. 11 portraits” in Chernivtsi, south-west Ukraine. His work features faces of Ukrainian soldiers, wounded on the frontlines fighting militant, printed onto canvass.
The artist recorded conversations and snapped photos of the injured troops in Ukrainian military hospitals over the space of a month.
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British Bronze Age / Ancient History Documentary
How did people live in the Bronze Age? In this film you can learn about the Bell Beaker folk who came to Britain around 2500 BC and brought metallurgy skills with them - they were first to work gold, tin or copper in Britain and they were the first to trade valuable foreign goods such as glass beads from the Mediterranean and Amber jewellery from the Baltic.
The British Beaker folk has strong genetic ties to the Beaker folk of the lower Rhine in Holland who were themselves related to the people of the Single Grave Culture - a variant of the Corded Ware culture which was evidently the source of most of the subsequent Indo-European cultures of the world. Genetics and archaeology show how the Bell Beaker and Corded Ware people were related to the Proto-Indo-European Yamnaya people of the Russian steppes - and how the Neolithic Kurgan burial mounds from Russia were the model for the early round barrows that the Bell Beaker folk of the Wessex culture in England built for their dead. I look at the amazing finds from such burial mounds in England - mainly the rich hoards from the graves near Stonehenge, which are kept in the Wiltshire museum in Devizes. This video also shows the connection of Bronze Age Britain to the Battle Axe culture of Scandinavia via the Amber trade routes.
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White Hex - Light and air
Gvasdnahr - Through the Astral Void
Kevin Beorn - Se Freca
Quincas Moreira - Dawn of man
Bark sound productions - In return
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Grimrik - Letzte Zweifel
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Chris Zabriskie - Virtues Inherited, Vices Passed On
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Olalde et al: “The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe”
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J. Ryan/J. Desideri/M. Besse: Bell Beaker Archers: Warriors or an Idealogy? JNA 20, 2018S, 97-122 [doi 10.12766/jna.2018S.6] (2018)
Furholt, M: Re-integrating Archaeology: A Contribution to aDNA Studies and the Migration Discourse on the 3rd Millennium BC in Europe (2019)
Radivojevic, M. et al. “Tainted ores and the rise of tin bronzes in Eurasia, c. 6500 years ago” (2013)
Pearson, M et al. “Bell Beaker people in Britain: migration, mobility and diet” (2016)
Needham, S. et al. “A Noble Group of Barrows’: Bush Barrow and the Normanton Down Early Bronze Age Cemetery Two Centuries On” (2010)
Froncek, T. 'The Northmen' (1974)
Exhibition of the Great Steppe will open in Macedonia
On July 11, 2019 the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan opens the exhibition “Great Steppe: History and Culture” in the exhibition hall of the National Archaeological Museum of North Macedonia. The exhibition will be held from July 11 to August 11, 2019, in the framework of the international project Golden Man Procession through Museums of the World.
The aim of the exhibition is to familiarize the foreign audience with the rich historical and cultural heritage of Kazakhstan. The exhibition will feature the symbol of the Republic of Kazakhstan - the “Golden Man”.
In the late 1960s - early 1970s, an archaeological sensation occurred in the vicinity of Almaty: in the Issyk mound, which was investigated by the outstanding archaeologist Kemal Akishev, the remains of the Saka king “Golden Man” who later became the symbol of Kazakhstan, were discovered. The priceless find was dubbed the Kazakh Tutankhamen and was recognized as the discovery of the century. Golden ornaments from the crown of the ancient ruler of the steppes - winged horses-tulpars - became part of the national coat of arms of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the sculpture of the Golden Man was installed on Independence Square in Almaty.
Almost half a century later, the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan announces an international tour - The Procession of the Golden Man through the museums of the world. As part of a ambitious project, the exhibition was successfully held in the museums of Belarus, Russia, Azerbaijan, China, Poland, South Korea and Uzbekistan; by the end of 2019, the exhibition will be visited by five countries worldwide.
At the exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum of North Macedonia you can see the reconstruction of the Golden Man in clothes embroidered with gold plaques, in a special conical headdress, which is decorated with golden plates in the form of golden arrows, snow leopards, argali, horses and birds, and a collection of archaeological findings of the early Iron Age (IV-III centuries BC), accompanying the burial of this notable young Saka warrior (according to archaeologists his age is 18-20 years).
Sakas (in Persian means mighty men) are the distant ancestors of the Kazakhs. In the writings of Greek authors, they are called Asian Scythians (“saka” dates back to the Scythian - deer), in other ancient sources they were figuratively described as men with the fastest horses. Among the three large groups of these tribes were mentioned the Saka-Tigrahaud (sharp-hatters), who lived in the territory where the Issyk mound was found with the burial of the Golden Man.
More than four thousand gold items were found in the mound: details for decorating clothes, as well as decorations and household items. The topography of the objects in the burial has allowed the researchers, as a result of hard work, to recreate the look of an ancient warrior, which is presented at the exhibition. A special place in the exposition is occupied by the silver bowl with the inscription made in the runic script found among the finds of the Mound of Issyk - one of the oldest written records found on this territory.
The most important feature of the ancient art of the steppe is the dominance of zoomorphic images - the so-called animal style, the distinctive features of which are the stylized images of totem animals, scenes of fighting animals, endowed with magical functions.
The drama plots symbolize the opposition of nature and the revival to life, the antagonism between good and evil, the eternal movement and the strife between opposites. A striking example of animal style is a plaque, dating from the V-IV centuries BC, made of gold in the technique of stamping and grooving in the form of two mirrored leopards.
As Christianity and Islam were established, the animal style gradually lost its original meaning, which goes back to heathen beliefs.
However, decorative images of animals, devoid of their original magical meaning, continued to exist in medieval art: in jewelry, book-miniature, wood carving, stone and bone, in architecture - but in a more general form, acquiring forms of stylized ornament, decorative elements. These trends are clearly expressed in the finds from the Sayram treasure, which are presented in the exhibition items of jewelry, dating from the XV century. Also at the exhibition will be presented unique archaeological finds from Saka mounds Taksay (West Kazakhstan region), Taldy-2 (Karaganda region) and Berel (East Kazakhstan region).
In total, the exhibition features 292 items from the collections of the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The masterpieces of ancient and medieval art of Kazakhstan represented at the exhibition are only a small part of the works of the nameless masters of the past, reflecting the originality of the heritage of the Eurasian steppe culture.