A tiger tattoo on the shoulder of a Scythian male mummy found in 1949 in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. 3rd century BCE
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2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact
This artifact was sealed within the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that runs below the barrows provided an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produced a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.
This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.
Currently housed at the Hermitage Museum.
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Siberian cows, 2019 - by Marina Fomina, Russian
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The Pazyryk Carpet is the oldest known carpet on earth woven 2500 years ago (5th Century B.C.). It was discovered in the tomb of a Scythian prince in the Pazyryk Valley of Siberia by Ukrainian archaeologist Sergei Rudenko in the late 1940s.
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Petroglyphs on the Jalgiztobe hill, Kosh Agach district, Altai Republic
📸 Alexandr Frolov
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A shaman watches TV inside the Tos Deer ( nine skies) association in the Siberian town of Kyzyl, Republic of Tuva, Russia. Photographed by A. Abbas.
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Lake Burlinskoye Location: Altai Krai, Western Siberia
Lake Burlinskoye is a pink lake in Siberia with a train that runs through it. The train collects sediment from the lake bed using harvesting tools, as a part of a salt harvesting operation dating back to 1768. This method yields 65,000 tons of salt each year.
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Horse wearing reconstructed 2500-year-old Scythian horse armor unearthed in the Altai Mountains in Siberia
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"March. Kuznetskoye Ala-Tau [mountains]" by Yuri Khudonogov (1962)
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Franco Fontana (Italian, b. 1933)
Siberia, 1988
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A woman moving to another village takes with her the bones of her dead son, decorated with marigolds, the native mourning flower, Balkan Front, June 1916.
Photo by Ariel Varges (1890-1972)
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A scene in Yakutsk, Siberia, the coldest city in the world, 2013 - by Steeve Iuncker (1969), Swiss
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