In the course of archaeological excavations students of Pavlodar State Pedagogical Institute have discovered a stone sarcophagus containing the remains of a girl. Probably buried was the daughter of the king of the tribe of Saks.
Expedition composed of faculty and students PSPI and the Institute of History and Ethnology named Chokan Valikhanova today is Urjar excavations in the region of East Kazakhstan region, - informs the public relations department of the university.
Burial was revealed during the construction of the road Taskesken - BACT. Obviously, it belonged to a noble young woman - about this saying preserved in the tomb of things. It is also possible that buried the daughter of Lord caste Saks - represents the driving expedition, director of the archaeological and ethnological research PSPI Timur Smagulov. At this points and golden cone hat women - these dresses were considered as part of the ceremonial costume Saka leaders.
Saki - the collective name given to the category Iranian nomadic tribes that lived in Central Asia, most of the two thousand years ago. References to them are found in the Persian and Greek sources, for example, in Herodotus.
In the burial in the east of Kazakhstan scientists and still found a clay and wood vessels, bones of sacrificed animals, gold decoration. First, the tomb dates from the IV-III centuries before our era.
