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Tests carried out found CO levels in Kalachi were 10 times higher than normal.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Berdybek Saparbayev said: The cause of the bizarre sleeping illness has been determined.
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10 After numerous medical tests, our researchers have confirmed that carbon monoxide is to blame for sleeping epidemic in Kalachi village.
Russian scientist Leonid Rikhvanov said the carbon monoxide had made its way way from the disused mines and smothered the village.
He said: To describe it simply, when the uranium mines were abandoned, they began to fill with ground water.
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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