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Scythian burial mounds, 18th-century artwork. These burial mounds, near the Tom River in southern Siberia, were described in a 1764 letter by Paul Demidoff (Russian philanthropist Pavel Grigoryevich Demidov, 1738-1821) with later commentary by German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798). Forster identified them as 14th-century Mongol, but later scholarship identified them as 5th-century BC Scythian. From left: a horse, prince (with weapons) and princess. They were buried in rich clothes, with ornaments, on sheets of pure gold. Published in Volume 2 (1773) of 'Archaeologia', the journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

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