June
27
/ 2014
Archaeologists made an incredible discovery when they found two very ancient chariots, and a hoard of well-preserved artifacts, within a 4,000-year-old burial chamber in the country of Georgia, in the south Caucasus, according to a report in Live Science. The remains of a chief and six other people were found within the chamber, which may reflect the sacrifice of slaves who were buried with their Master. The timber burial chamber was uncovered from within a 12-metre mound, known as a kurgan, in eastern Georgia near the municipality of Lagodekhi. ‘Kurgan’ is the Russian word for tumulus, a type of burial mound or barrow, heaped over a burial chamber. Kurgan barrows were characteristic of Bronze Age peoples, from the Altay Mountains
