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Tom Metcalfe

3,800-year-old burial of tall warrior buried with 4-pronged spearhead unearthed in Azerbaijan

A photograph of an excavated grave with a curled up human skeleton and multiple artifacts.

Archaeologists in Azerbaijan have unearthed the 3,800-year-old tomb of a towering warrior who was buried with a four-pronged spearhead in his hand.

The tomb was found on the remote and windswept plains of Ceyranchol, just a few miles from Azerbaijan's western borders with both Georgia and Armenia. The burial mound — known locally as a kurgan — is on the Keshikchidagh historical and cultural reserve, an area known for its natural and human-made caves, castles and early Christian monasteries.

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