Spectacular Bronze Age Karasuk Culture Jewelry Found in Siberian Grave
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Siberian Lady of the Rings - rich bronze age burial reveals stunning set of funeral jewellery
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For the first time, science has allowed the faces of Siberian Tutankhamun and his queen buried 2600 years ago to be reconstructed.
When the ancient Scythian king and queen were uncovered in a gold-encrusted tomb, rotted skulls were found detached from their bodies and adorned with gold jewellery.
The 1997 discovery of the Arzhan-2 burial in Tuva, a Russian republic in south Siberia, is still regarded as one of the most extraordinary discoveries ever made by archaeologists.
Rotted skulls were found detached from their bodies and adorned with gold jewellery.(Konstantin Chugunov)
Now, the features of the royal couple, who ruled at the time when the Great Pyramids were built in Egypt, are being brought to life.
Faces of ‘Siberian Tutankhamun’ and his ‘Queen’ buried 2,600 years ago reconstructed by science
08 January 2021
Modern technology brings back appearances of nomadic nobles laid to rest in treasure trove of a tomb.
Of the ‘King’, Moscow anthropologists said: ‘In front of us there is a battle-hardened Scythian warrior, carrying in his appearance a unique combination of Caucasoid and Mongoloid features’. Picture: Elizaveta Veselovskaya, Ravil Galeev
The Arzhan-2 burial of the Scythian ‘King’ and the ‘Queen’, found in 1997 and studied between 2001-2003 by Russian-German expedition is one the most extraordinary discoveries ever made by archeologists.
Now for the first time the features of the powerful couple buried in their gold-encrusted, awe-inspiring clothing can be seen in life-like sculptures thanks to work of