A Hun-Sarmatian burial site found in Tuva
Burial site at Erbek-10
Archaeologists began examining a new burial mound at Erbek-10 excavation site. Excavations are supervised by archaeologist Nikolai Smirnov of the Tuvan Institute for Humanities Research. The discovered burial site is tentatively dated to the Hun-Sarmatian period (2nd -6th centuries A.D.), which preceded the Turkic period. Archaeologists have unearthed human bones – the remnants of a young girl, or a young man – which were presumably covered with a horse skin. (A horse skull and several horse bones, which were also found inside the burial site, support this hypothesis.) The burial site has also yielded several sheep bones.
Excavations at the burial site have barely started, but it is already clear that it has been partially ransacked. In several days the thorough examination of the site will be completed and archaeologists will be able to date it more precisely.
