Treasures of the Alanian culture found in Alkhan-Kala necropolis

Treasures of the Alanian culture found in Alkhan-Kala necropolis

Archaeologists have discovered an intact burial mound containing the tomb of an Alanian elite during excavations at Alkhan-Kala west of Grozny, Chechnya. The Alani were an Iranic-speaking, nomadic pastoralist people who migrated westward into the North Caucasus, across Europe, and even into parts of Africa. Emerging as a dominant force among the Sarmatian tribes of the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the Alani first appear in Roman historical records and…