Gilded mask-shaped buckle with turquoise inlays; Tsaraam cemetery in Buryatia, Xiongnu Royal burial [d/b]

“The Tsaraam valley is situated 30 km to the west of the town of Kiakhta (Kiakhta district of the Buriat Republic), not far from the Russian-Mongolian border.” [Sergey Miniaev] “the complex is no earlier than about the last third of the first century BCE and very likely is to be dated in the first century CE.” … Continue reading Gilded mask-shaped buckle with turquoise inlays; Tsaraam cemetery in Buryatia, Xiongnu Royal burial [d/b]