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The reconstructed faces are of a king and concubine that died 2,600 years ago The remains were discovered in a massive burial mound in 1997 Half of the kings skull was missing and the womans was deteriorated   The couple was buried with thousands of gold trinkets and 14 horses There were also remains of 33 other people and five children in the mound Experts say they were sacrificed to accompany the king to the afterlife 

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For the first time, science has allowed the faces of "Siberian Tutankhamun" and his queen buried 2600 years ago to be reconstructed. When the ancient Scythian king and queen were uncovered in a gold-encrusted tomb, rotted skulls were found detached from their bodies and adorned with gold jewellery. The 1997 discovery of the Arzhan-2 burial in Tuva, a Russian republic in south Siberia, is still regarded as one of the most extraordinary discoveries ever made by archaeologists. Rotted skulls were ...

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Faces of ‘Siberian Tutankhamun’ and his ‘Queen’ buried 2,600 years ago reconstructed by science 08 January 2021 Modern technology brings back appearances of nomadic nobles laid to rest in treasure trove of a tomb. Of the ‘King’, Moscow anthropologists said: ‘In front of us there is a battle-hardened Scythian warrior, carrying in his appearance a unique combination of Caucasoid and Mongoloid features’. Picture: Elizaveta Veselovskaya, Ravil Galeev The Arzhan-2 burial of the Scyth...

Swedish filmmaker JoachimHedén (NewYork Waiting) returns with an intense thriller starring Moa Gammel andMadeleine Martin as half-sisters clamoring against time on the ocean floor. Shot on location in Sweden and Norway, Hedéns latest feature film BREAKING SURFACE will make its DVD and Blu-ray debut beginning February 16 with special bonus features by Doppelgänger Releasing. A few days after Christmas, half-sisters Ida and Tuva set out on a winter dive in a remote part of the Norwegian coastl...