#ancient cemetery

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Skeletons With Rings Around Their Necks Uncovered at Ancient Cemetery In Ukraine

The discovery of a cemetery in Ukraine from a millennium ago has revealed axes, swords, jewelry and, unexpectedly, buckets around the feet of some of the dead.

Archaeologists in Ukraine have discovered a 1,000-year-old cemetery whose dead were buried with weapons, jewelry and, curiously, buckets around some of their feet.

The 11th-century cemetery is located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Kyiv. Of its 107 graves, "most of the identified burials were deposed in wooden coffins," Vsevolod Ivakin and Vyacheslav Baranov, both archaeologists at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, wrote in a paper they presented at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, which was held Jan. 4-7 in Chicago.

The cemetery's dead include both men and women. Some of the men were buried with weapons, such as axes, spearheads and swords, Ivakin and Baranov wrote. A few of the women were buried with elaborate neck rings, which "are found only on necks in female burials and were apparently a kind of social marker," in this region at the time, Baranov said in an email. Some of the people were buried with wooden buckets at their feet, which may have been part of funerary rituals. Other sites that have buckets within burials have been found in the region.

The archaeologists also found a stone altar, as well as bracelets, beads and the remains of food offerings, such as chicken bones and eggshells, among other artifacts. The altar could have been used for Christian or pagan rituals, or possibly both.

Some of the artifacts are similar to those found in the Baltic, hinting that some of the people buried in the cemetery might have come from that region to serve in the militaries of the rulers of Kyiv, such as Volodymyr the Great (who reigned from 980 to 1015) and Yaroslav the Wise (who reigned from 1019 to 1054), the archaeologists noted. The territories that Volodymyr the Great ruled stretched to the Baltic region.

At the time the cemetery was in use, people in Ukraine were converting to Christianity, the researchers said. This included Volodymyr the Great, who left behind his pagan roots and was baptized around 987 before his marriage to Anna, the sister of the Byzantine emperor Basil II.

The researchers excavated the cemetery between 2017 and 2022. The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, however, has paused many excavations in Ukraine, including this one, the archaeologists said.

By Owen Jarus,

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A couple of preserved large mounds of Krivichi on the field. The height of each is almost two meters or even more, the diameter is ten to twelve meters. The funeral rite is a corpse laying on the horizon. These mounds date back to the XI century

[ancientstuff]

Yet more Roman graves under houses. This is starting to become a trope. Already is a trope. The fact of graves of any era under houses and roads and ... should be expected, I reckon. It IS Europe.

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Unearthing Ancient DNA samples]

TEHRAN – A team of experts has extracted DNA samples from the remains of ancient humans buried in urn-like clay tombs, which were unearthed accidentally earlier this year in southwest Iran.

“The preliminary investigations show these burial urns can be dated from the Parthian and Sassanid eras, but for absolute dating, we have to wait for the results of dating tests on bone remains,” CHTN quoted archaeologist Loqman Ahmadzadeh as saying on Tuesday.

The discovery was made in the Kourosh neighborhood of Ahvaz last July when heavy machinery conducted excavations in the oil-rich region, the report said.

This rare and accidental discovery has provided an exceptional opportunity for archaeologists to conduct methodical research on the history of Ahvaz, the archaeologist said.

Ahmadzadeh added that the burial urns are of the torpedo-shaped type, whose inner surface is tarred, and the condition of the bones inside them shows a natural order and no confusion.

Among the burials, [the remains of ] a child were found…. On the forearm of its skeleton, a worn iron object was seen, which was probably the remains of a bracelet or bangle, the archaeologist noted.

In addition, samples of bitumen used in lining the inner surface of the vats will be analyzed in a laboratory to determine the origin and compare with similar cases in other contemporaneous sites, he said.

The Parthian Empire Parthian Empire  (247 BC to 224 CE), also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran. The Parthians largely adopted the art, architecture, religious beliefs, and royal insignia of their culturally heterogeneous empire, which encompassed Persian, Hellenistic, and regional cultures. At its height, the Parthian Empire stretched from the northern reaches of the Euphrates, in what is now central-eastern Turkey, to eastern Iran.

The Sassanid era (224 CE–651) is of very high importance in the history of Iran. Under the Sassanids, Persian art and architecture experienced a general renaissance. Architecture often took grandiose proportions, such as the royal palaces at Ctesiphon, Firuzabad, and Sarvestan, which are amongst the highlights of the ensemble. In that epoch, crafts such as metalwork and gem engraving grew highly sophisticated, yet scholarship was encouraged by the state. In those years, works from both the East and West were translated into Pahlavi, the language of the Sassanians. In 2018, UNESCO added an ensemble of Sassanian historical cities in southern Iran — titled “Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region”-- to its World Heritage list.

Ahvaz is the capital of Khuzestan province, which is home to three UNESCO World Heritage sites: Susa, Tchogha Zanbil, and Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System, among many other historical sites.

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Abandoned Ming dynasty rural graveyard, Zhejiang.

Photo: © Aier闽

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Anglo-Saxon Cremation Pots from Cleatham Cemetery, North Lincolnshire Museum, Scunthorpe

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Etruscan terracotta cinerary urn. 2nd century BCE

Museo Etrusco, Orvieto, Italy

March 2024

[ozgurhayalim]

Doğada aslan ruhlu komutanların tarafındayız... Büyük İskender ve birliklerinin fethedemediği sarp ve yüksek dağlarla çevrili kent... Siyasi oyunların bir parçası yüzünden kendini öldüren Savaşçı Alcetes'in anıt mezarının izinden...📷

Evet arkadaşlar biraz buralara gelmek istedim, çok eski dostlar görmek sevindirici, umarım iyisinizdir...

Ben işlerden fırsat buldukça doğadayım ve tek sonsuz mutluluğum işimin bir parçası doğa...

Termessos Antik Kenti, Antalya

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Adolf Hiremy Hirschl- Ancient Cemetery Scene (Woman with Children Decorating a Grave)

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Ancient Roman catacombs of Rabat, Malta. 

Check out Rabat on my website: https://wanderingjana.com/rabat

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Ancient Egyptians held cats in the highest esteem.

The penalties of injuring a cat were severe and killing a cat led to capital punishment.

They worshipped a cat goddess, half woman and half feline, whom they called Bastet.

When the cat dies, it is the duty of the owners to give them proper burial along with rituals. They shave their head, eyebrows or beard to show their grief.

They even conduct after life rituals for their cat in order to gain blessings from Goddess Bastet.

Cat was embalmed with a sculpted wooden mask and then placed in the family tomb or pet cemetery (premises of Temple of Goddess Bastet) with tiny mummies of mice.

The state maintained the cats in the temple of Goddess Bastet. Head priest of the temple was in charge of maintenance of cats in temple premises.

The state also took charge of burial and rituals of stray cats.

The whole kingdom loved and respected cats. Their owners loved and treated them as their own child throughout Egyptian Civilization.

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3,400-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Cemetery Found With Colorful Coffins

Archaeologists have uncovered an Ancient Egyptian cemetery dated to more than 3,000 years ago containing the colorful coffin of a high priest's daughter and preserved mummies, among hundreds of other finds.

Researchers unearthed the cemetery at the Tuna el-Gebel necropolis, located almost 170 miles south of Cairo in Minya Governate, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced in a statement on Sunday.

The cemetery, which dates back to the New Kingdom (16th-11th centuries B.C.) of ancient Egypt, was used as a burial ground for senior officials and priests during the period, according to archaeologists.

The cemetery was uncovered during excavations that began last August in the Al-Ghuraifa area of Tuna El-Gebel and features "many tombs" that have been carved into rock.

Researchers have also made hundreds of archaeological finds at the site, including stone and wooden coffins—some of which contained mummies—amulets, ornaments and funerary figurines.

One of the most notable finds at the cemetery is a colorful, engraved coffin belonging to the daughter of a high priest of the ancient Egyptian god Djehuti, often referred to as Thoth.

This deity, commonly depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or baboon, was a key figure in ancient Egyptian mythology and played several prominent roles. For example, Thoth was credited with the invention of writing and is also believed to have served as a representative of the sun god Ra.

Next to the coffin of the high priest's daughter, archaeologists found two wooden boxes containing her canopic jars, as well as a complete set of "ushabti" statues.

Canopic jars were vessels used by the ancient Egyptians to store the organs removed from the body in the process of mummification—the lungs, liver, intestines and stomach—in order to preserve them for the afterlife.

Ushabti statues, meanwhile, were figurines used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices that were placed in tombs in the belief that they would act as servants for the deceased in the afterlife.

Archaeologists also made another particularly fascinating find at the New Kingdom cemetery: a complete and well-preserved papyrus scroll measuring approximately 42-49 feet in length that features information related to the Book of the Dead.

The Book of the Dead is a collection of ancient Egyptian funerary texts consisting of spells or magic formulas that were placed in tombs. These texts were thought to protect and aid the deceased in the afterlife. They were generally written on papyrus, a material similar to thick paper that was used as a writing surface in ancient times.

Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said in the statement that the discovery of the cemetery is an "important" find.

By Aristos Georgiou.

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The burial mound of the Krivichi is a union of East Slavic tribes that existed in the VIII-XII centuries. A distinctive feature of the graves of the Krivichi are long mounds – shaft-shaped earthen mounds, which can be seen in my photos. Almost all long mounds contain burial sites according to the rite of corpse-burning

[ancientstuff]

Nice find. I love that fretwork cartonnage. Beautifully done.

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Old believers cemetery, 1911, painting by the Russian painter Vladimir Aleksandrovich Plotnikov 1866-1917.

[lithi]

So the eight hero(ine) (the ancient hero??) helped the Gerudo of ancient times in a time of need but was denied entry to the city, which the seven heroines regretted… And then now Link came to help the Gerudos again, but was this time, he is allowed to get inside the city which everyone is fairly happy about… mmhh… Mmhh…