Issyk kurgan
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The Issyk kurgan, in south-eastern Kazakhstan, less than 20 km east from the Talgar alluvial fan, near Issyk, is a burial mound discovered in 1969. It has a height of 6 meters and a circumference of 6
One of the kurgans at Issyk
The Saka ruler, or "Golden Man"
Sites with inscriptions in the unknown Kushan script, divided into confirmed and potential sites.
Elk. Burial mound Issyk (5th–4th centuries BC)
Sauromatian culture
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The Sauromatian culture was an Iron Age culture of horse nomads in the area of the lower Volga River to the southern Ural Mountain, in southern Russia, dated to the 6th to 4th centuries BCE. Archaeolo
Two-planed stag, Filippovka kurgan, Late Sauromatian-Early Sarmatian, 4th century BCE.
Amphora with argali-shaped handles, Filippovka kurgan 1, 4th century BCE.
Gold bear, Filippovka kurgans, Late Sauromatian-Early Sarmatian, 5th-4th century BCE.
Warriors with daggers and bows. Dagger blade decoration from Kurgan 4, Burial 2, Filippovka, Late Sauromatian-Early Sarmatian, 5th-4th century BCE.