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West Kazakhstan Reveals 150 Mysterious Burial Mounds of the Early Iron Age
Archaeologists working in Kazakhstan’s West Kazakhstan Region (WKO) have uncovered a cluster of roughly 150 burial mounds, or kurgans, whose unusual forms may rewrite our understanding of early steppe civilizations. Dating back to the Early Iron Age, these mounds could belong either to the Sarmatians—nomadic tribes known across the Eurasian steppes—or to a previously unknown…