A unique "sacrificial complex" discovered between two burial mounds in Russia has revealed new information about the funerary rituals of nomadic people in the south Ural Mountains nearly 2,400 years ago.
This past summer, researchers from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russia Academic of Sciences excavated the space between burial mounds at the archaeological site of Vysokaya Mogila, a necropolis with a series of high-status burial mounds scattered across 3.7 miles (6 kilometers). The necropolis was in use between the fourth and third centuries B.C., and a number of artifacts have been discovered both in the burial mounds and outside them.
