The burial mound, known as Kurgan No. 1, had remained completely undisturbed since antiquity, a rarity among Saka monuments that have often fallen victim to grave robbers. The tomb's structure ...
Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have uncovered 2,500-year-old Saka warrior’s tomb containing a rare double-bladed akinaka sword ...
The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...