Equus on ice

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An account of the excavation of 12 horses in full dress regalia sacrificed nearly 2,500 years ago is given. The discovery was in a frozen Scythian kurgunk or tumulus, near the village of Berel in Kazakhstan's Bukhtarma valley. The horses were found buried next to a funeral chamber with the pillaged burial of two Scythian nobles.

Kazakhstan, Antiquities, Scythians

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Cave art Nouveau

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Marc Delluc discovered some Upper Palaeolithic engravings in Cussac cave in southern France. He found some representation of birds and unknown animals engraved with stone tools, some by fingers on the cave walls and there were no paintings.

France, Science & research, Research, Discovery and exploration, Cave-drawings, Cave drawings, Delluc, Marc

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First farmers; a unique Syrian site, flooded after completion of a dam, yielded evidence of one of the world's oldest settlements

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The archaeological evidence at Jerf-el-Ahmar in Syria of about 12 villages piled on top of each other and occupied betrween ca. 9600 and 8500 B.C. is discussed.

Syria, Prehistoric peoples, Excavations (Archaeology)

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