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This kurgan is located in what is known as the Siberian Valley of the Kings, meaning that no other sizable find related to Scythian culture has ever been found as far east as this.
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Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
Heyd and a large group of his colleagues had set out to survey Yamnaya kurgans, or burial mounds, in eastern Europe.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
Trifonov and his team suggest that the Maikop people who built the kurgan used the tubes to drink beer from a communal vessel.
—NBC News, 19 Jan. 2022
The straws, along with one of the beer vessels, were found at the Maikop kurgan, a prehistoric burial mound in the northern Caucasus in Russia.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
For the past four years, a joint Russian-Swiss team of archaeologists has been excavating a kurgan, or burial mound, in the Russian republic of Tuva in southern Siberia.
—Andrew Curry, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2020
University of Sydney archaeologist Gino Caspari and his colleagues searched for Scythian burial mounds, or kurgans, in high-resolution satellite images of a 110 square kilometer (68.4 square mile) area of the Xinjiang province in northwestern China.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2018
An ancient problem Looting is an old tradition on the steppe—as old as the oldest kurgans themselves.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2018
The two apparent plague victims were buried together in a kurgan: a wooden chamber beneath a mound of earth.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
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Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
Heyd and a large group of his colleagues had set out to survey Yamnaya kurgans, or burial mounds, in eastern Europe.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
Trifonov and his team suggest that the Maikop people who built the kurgan used the tubes to drink beer from a communal vessel.
—NBC News, 19 Jan. 2022
The straws, along with one of the beer vessels, were found at the Maikop kurgan, a prehistoric burial mound in the northern Caucasus in Russia.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
For the past four years, a joint Russian-Swiss team of archaeologists has been excavating a kurgan, or burial mound, in the Russian republic of Tuva in southern Siberia.
—Andrew Curry, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2020
University of Sydney archaeologist Gino Caspari and his colleagues searched for Scythian burial mounds, or kurgans, in high-resolution satellite images of a 110 square kilometer (68.4 square mile) area of the Xinjiang province in northwestern China.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2018
An ancient problem Looting is an old tradition on the steppe—as old as the oldest kurgans themselves.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2018
The two apparent plague victims were buried together in a kurgan: a wooden chamber beneath a mound of earth.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
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Kurgan
geographical name
Kur·gan
ku̇r-ˈgan 
-ˈgän
city on the Tobol River and the Trans-Siberian Railroad in southwestern Russia in Asia population 333,600
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