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Scythian mummy found in Mongolia - dates back 2,500 years
#31
Well, it's probably not a Scythian, but they found another 2000-year old body in the Altai mountains.

Article in full here.

[quote]Russian archaeologists have uncovered the 2000-year-old remains of a warrior preserved intact in permafrost in the Altai mountains region, the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily reported.

The warrior was blond had tattoos on his body. He was wearing a felt coat with sable fur trimmings and was buried in a wooden frame containing drawings of mythological creatures with an icepick beside him, the paper said.

Local archaeologists believe the man was part of the ruling elite of a local nomadic tribe known as the Pazyryk. Numerous other Pazyryk tombs have been found in the area.

“This is definitely a very serious discovery. It’s incredibly lucky that the burial was in permafrost so it was very well preserved,â€
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#32
Just to specify, these finds are probably not 2500 years old. The original Pazyryk finds- including the famously-dubbed "oldest rug in the world" - were originally said to date to 500 BC but a new radiocarbon dating of the rug showed that it, and the other contemporary burials, dated to around 260-250 BC. It seems, however, that few news sources or current books have caught onto this new dating yet.
Ruben

He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
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