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Places tagged “salbyk”

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🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus

Salbyk Extended Kurgan Terrace – Khakassia

Tagar (Scythian-type Early Iron Age) · Tagar

18 Tagar satellite kurgans (700–300 BCE) on Salbyk terrace — hierarchy around Great Salbyk mega-mound.

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🇷🇺 Russia · Megalith

Great Salbyk Kurgan

Tagar culture, Scythian (~800–200 BCE; Salbyk 500 BCE) · Tagar (Scythian-Siberian, Khakass steppe)

So-called Siberian Stonehenge: a 71-m square enclosure of standing Devonian sandstone slabs weighing up to 50 tonnes enclosing a truncated pyramid kurgan 12 m high.