Tag: Russia
3,000-year-old intact burial of ‘charioteer’ discovered in Siberia
Archaeologists conducting excavations in Siberia have made a significant discovery, unearthing an impeccably preserved tomb believed to be around 3,000 years old. The tomb...
Core measuring 13 metres deep reveals prehistory and natural history of Eastern Europe
Scientists have extracted a 13.5 m-deep core of organic deposits from the Serteya mire in western Russia, described as an invaluable source of information...
Genetic data from the Altai 7,500 years ago indicate high mobility of ancient hunter-gatherers
An international team lead by researchers from the University of Tübingen, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment in Tübingen and Max Planck Institute...
Human bones used for making pendants in the Stone Age
In the Stone Age, pendants with potent symbolism were made from animal teeth and bones, adorning clothes or accessories and serving as rattles. Human...
Old Norse settlers traded walrus ivory with Kyiv
Archaeologists had low expectations when excavations started at 35 Spaska Street in Kyiv in 2007. Two earlier archaeological surveys had been carried out here,...
Archaeologists reconstruct ancient Aryan bow
A unique compound bow from the Bronze Age nearly 2 meters tall was reconstructed from authentic materials by SUSU specialists as part of an...