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    The Issyk kurgan, in south-eastern Kazakhstan, less than 20 km east from the Talgar alluvial fan, near Issyk, is a burial mound discovered in 1969. It...
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    of the Sakas include Arzhan, Tunnug, the Pazyryk burials, the Issyk kurgan, Saka Kurgan tombs, the Barrows of Tasmola and possibly Tillya Tepe. In the...
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    were buried in pairs. It was excavated by N. I. Veselovski in 1897. The Issyk kurgan, in southern Kazakhstan, contains a skeleton, possibly female, c. 4th...
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    Issyk-Kul (also Ysyk-Köl, Kyrgyz: Ысык-Көл, romanized: Ysyk-Köl, lit. 'warm lake', [ɯsɯk kœl]) is an endorheic (i.e., without outflow) saline lake in...
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    who presents some parallels with similar "Golden men" found in Issyk kurgan or the kurgan at Shilikty. Long swords with T-shaped pommel and long swords...
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    Issyk inscription The Issyk inscription is a yet undeciphered text, possibly in the Kushan script, found in 1969 on a silver bowl in Issyk kurgan in Kazakhstan...
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    road improvement works at the Issyk burial mound in the south of the country of Almaty. It was recovered from the Issyk kurgan, which was examined by a team...
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    Shilikty (category Kurgans)
    Arzhan-2 kurgan in Tuva. The Kurgans contained vast quantities of precious golden jewelry. Remains of a "golden man" (similar to the Issyk kurgan golden...
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  • Nadezhdinskaya. The Issyk kurgan of the famous "Golden Man" is nearby. The nearby Issyk Lake (not to be confused with the much greater Issyk Kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan)...
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    is a mummy of a woman from the 5th century BC, discovered in 1993 in a kurgan belonging to one of the Pazyryk burials, from the Pazyryk culture in the...
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