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Horn Bridle Decoration from Pazyryk, Altai Mountains, 5th century BC-4th century BC

Horn Bridle Decoration from Pazyryk, Altai Mountains, 5th century BC-4th century BC. Representing a Horned Tiger and two swans. The Pazyryk burials are a number of Scythian Iron Age tombs found in the Pazyryk Valley of the Ukok plateau in the Altai Mountains, Siberia.. At Hermitage Museum, Leningrad USSR

Scythian gold, c8th century BC-1st century BC

Scythian gold, c8th century BC-1st century BC. The Scythians or Scyths were a group of Iranian people and Eurasian nomads who inhabited the western and central Eurasian steppes from the 9th century BC until the 1st century BC. Hermitage Museum

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Detail of Chinese silk found in a Scythian tomb

Detail of Chinese silk found in the tomb of a Scythian chief at Pazyryk, Altai, Russia. This is the earliest known Chinese silk surviving in good condition. It is embroidered with phoenixes and partridges in chain-stitch on a silk tussore with a linen weave and approximately fifty threads per centimetre. In the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad

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