“Unlike Anything Else” – Archaeologists Unearth Massive Bronze Age City After 3500 Years
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“Unlike Anything Else” – Archaeologists Unearth Massive Bronze Age City After 3500 Years
A newly surveyed Bronze Age city shows unexpected urban planning and bronze production in the steppe. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a large Bronze Age settlement on the Kazakh Steppe, a site that appears to have served as a major center for bronze production more than 3,500 years ago. The discovery comes from an [...]
Archaeologists reveal signs of a lost Bronze Age city on the Kazakh steppe
A sophisticated Bronze Age settlement in Kazakhstan could change the way humans think about ancient steppe societies, archaeologists working on the site have said in a new report. Semiyarka, sometimes called the “City of Seven Ravines,” is now thought by researchers to have been an organised “urban hub.” First found in the early 2000s but not surveyed until 2018, Semiyarka in northeastern Kazakhstan occupies a strategic position above the Irtysh…
A study shows that Semiyarka, in Kazakhstan, was an important place to produce alloys at the Bronze Age, 1600 B.C.E. Many bronze and terracotta artifacts, as well as high copper and tin soils, show intense metallurgical activityThese slopes are only about a metre high. High and geometrically enough to guess, on satellite images, an alignment of non-natural, rectangular structures in the heart of the northeastern Kazakh steppe. "The differences i…
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