Pristine Saka sword located in 2,500-year-vintage warrior`s tomb

Archaeologists from the Karaganda Regional History Museum have exposed a 2,500-year-vintage burial throughout excavations on the Karabiye burial floor withinside the Aktogay district of Kazakhstan.

According to neighborhood reports, the tomb dates from across the seventh to sixth centuries BC throughout the early Saka period. The Saka have been a set of nomadic Eastern Iranian peoples who lived withinside the Eurasian Steppe and the Tarim Basin from the ninth century BC to the fifth century AD.

Image Credit : Karaganda Regional Museum

The tomb changed into in a round earthen embankment crowned with a cap of stone slabs, below which archaeologists located the stays of a warrior burial at the side of the sword, 5 arrows, and an iron earring wrapped in skinny gold foil.

Experts have defined the sword as being a finely crafted double-bladed akinaka type, that's forged in a unmarried piece and embellished with complex designs of argali (sheep) horns and birds of prey.

“The day trip lasted a month. It changed into an archaeological crew from the local records museum. We anticipated to locate common stays from the Saka period, however the reality that the burial mound has been preserved in its authentic shape is extraordinarily rare. This presents an possibility to look the burial ceremony because it changed into done over  thousand years ago,” stated Dauren Zhusupov.

The artefacts were despatched for metallographic, radiocarbon, and anthropological evaluation to decide their specific age and cultural context.

In latest years, Central Kazakhstan has yielded numerous enormous unearths from the Saka era. In 2023, a bronze akinaka with a butterfly-formed pass shield changed into exposed withinside the Karkaraly district, and in 2024, archaeologists located an iron sword with a groove for blood drainage withinside the Taldinsky Historical and Archaeological Park.