Mysterious 'mustached' burial mounds in Kazakhstan date to the Middle Ages

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Mysterious 'mustached' burial mounds in Kazakhstan date to the Middle Ages
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Owen Jarus is a regular contributor to Live Science who writes about archaeology and humans' past. He has also written for The Independent (UK), The Canadian Press (CP) and The Associated Press (AP), among others. Owen has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Toronto and a journalism degree from Ryerson University.

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered 10 centuries-old burial mounds, known as kurgans, dating to the Middle Ages.

"Mustached" kurgans from the Middle Ages are common in Kazakhstan; more than 400 of them have been discovered in central Kazakhstan alone, Utubaev said. These mounds have diameters ranging from about 10 to 50 feet in length, he said. Image 1 of 2RELATED STORIES—3,500-year-old rock art of wild sheep and double-humped camels revealed in Kazakhstan—Bronze Age girl buried with more than 150 animal ankle bones, potentially to help her to the next world

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