Archaeologists have found a large burial mound in the Valley of the Kings, dating to more than 2,500 years ago. A crescent moon-shaped pendant, bronze mirror and gold earrings are some of the grave goods that were buried with the remains of a woman and toddler.
The mounds were made by the Scythians, who lived between the Black Sea and China from about 800 B.C. to about A.D. 300.
There is a burial mound located near a previously excavated one. I think that she was a person of great importance because of the close proximity to the chief's burial mound and the valuable artifacts buried with her.
He said the crescent pendant stood out because similar shaped pendants had previously been found in men's burials in southern Siberia.
There is a huge weapons cache in the Ancient Siberia grave.
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Archaeologists have known about the Valley of the Kings for more than a century. There are many Scythian royal burials in the Touran-Uyuk valley.
One of the previously excavated kurgans, dating to the eighth or ninth century B.C., holds the earliest known elite burial ever found. Oleszczak said that most of the kurgans have yet to be excavated.
Oleszczak and his team conducted excavations in the valley at the invitation of Russian archaeologists. According to Science in Poland, a news site coordinated by the Polish government and independent journalists, the kurgan is about 25 m in diameter and has a destroyed center. The kurgan is just 12 inches (30 centimeters) high today.
The burials of five people were found during the excavations. The researchers found a burial chamber with weapons, including arrows, in the center of the kurgan.
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The remains of a woman and child were found in a wooden burial chamber with three layers of beams. There are not many trees in that area and the amount of wood is likely a sign of wealth.
The woman died at 50 and the child was 2 to 3 years old. Along with the crescent pendant, the woman was buried with a number of other grave goods, including gold ornaments near her head, an iron knife, and an engraved wooden comb tied with a leather loop to a bronze mirror. A leather bag held this comb-mirror duo. It is not clear how the woman and toddler died.
The remains of a young male warrior were buried with weapons, including a knife, a whetstone and gold ornaments. The fifth burial was found on the outskirts. The grave held the remains of a teenager and was outside the barrow.
Dozens of horse-riding equipment pieces, a bronze ax and a goat-shaped ornament were found by the archaeologists using a metal detector. The farm collective that existed in the area in the 20th century is believed to have caused these objects to be scattered.
It was originally published on Live Science.
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