Hello, friends.
When a person drives through the Khakassian steppe for the first time, he is always surprised by the huge number of ancient gravestones flashing outside the car window. Indeed, it seems that the Khakass steppe is one huge cemetery and this cemetery has existed for more than five thousand years.
Today I want to introduce you to one fragment of this ancient cemetery - with the Scythian grave complex located near the old Khakass village of Sofronov and created in the middle of the first millennium BC.
The complex consists of about fifty graves surrounded by stone steles. Ancient drawings are applied on many stones. Modern researchers counted 564 different images - Petroglyph. Most Petroglyphs, apparently, are related to shamanism: figures of people, birds and animals, tambourines, mysterious "cosmic" symbols and magical attributes. Some researchers believe that these drawings are a kind of encyclopedia of Siberian shamanism.
Archaeologists are distinguished among the graves of the Safronovsky complex, a group of large graves of 5-6 generations that are clearly belonging to the same genus. With their example, you can trace the strengthening of this kind. If the early graves have features of the standard burial ground of the birth nobility, then the stones of subsequent graves have larger sizes, bright deeply individual architectural images.
Alas, we do not know about what the ancient Scythians went to the afterlife, all these graves were plundered long before archaeologists appeared in Siberia. In the center of the photograph, we see the so -called “predatory pit” - a digging through which robbers fell into a crypt.
The first photo is presented for participation in the [Photofeed Contest-Landscape Photography Round 65] (@photofeed/photofeeed-contest-ladscape-photogranapy Round-65) by @photofeeed
Camera: Nikon 1 S1
Location: Russia, Siberia
Friends, thank you for your Attenation, See You Soon.
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Scythian graves in Khakassia
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