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• Kazakh archaeologists discover Scythian princess tomb

  Source: Tengrinews. Kazakhstan archaeologists found a tomb of a “Scythian princess”, Tengrinews.kz reports citing head of the expedition TImur Smagulov. The burial site of the high-ranking young woman was discovered during reconstruction of Taskesken-Bakty road in Urdzhar region of East-Kazakhstan oblast. An expedition made of professors and students of Semipalatinsk and Pavlodar pedagogical institutes (...)

• 2,500-year-old tombs in China suggest sun-worshiping culture

  Source: UPI. Chinese archaeologists say a cluster of ancient tombs in the country’s far west are arranged in a manner that implies a sun-worshiping culture. The tombs were found in Xinjiang’s Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, a border region neighbouring Afghanistan and Pakistan, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. Located on a crossroads of the ancient Silk Road, the tombs have been dated to (...)
• 11 May – Exhibition on Uruk in Berlin
• 3 March – 18 ancient “Odyssey” mosaics stolen in Syria
• 27 February – Buddhist ruins discovered in Taklimakan desert
• 9 January – Sassanid gold coins discovered in Iraq
• 17 December 2012 – Kushan-era coins returned to Kabul museum
• 24 November 2012 – Ancient woman statue revealed in Metropolis
• 26 October 2012 – Armenia: rare findings dating back to the 6th millennium
• 29 September 2012 – Nazi-acquired Buddha statue was a meteorite
• 6 August 2012 – New findings in Gaskar in Northern Iran
• 27 July 2012 – The Hittite Stone and Sculpture Quarry in Central Anatolia