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Tom Metcalfe

2,000-year-old gold jewelry from mysterious culture discovered in Kazakhstan

Gold earrings in the dirt.

Archaeologists have unearthed gold jewelry, arrowheads, and a large, bronze mirror from roughly 2,000-year-old burial mounds in the Turkistan region of southern Kazakhstan.

The artifacts are thought to have been made at the time of the Kangju state, a little-known entity that ruled the region between the fifth century B.C. and the fourth century A.D.

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