A new Kyrgyz sheep breed is charging to fame in Central Asia for the size of its males and the massive prices being reported for prime specimens of the variety.

The site is provisionally dated to a six-century stretch, from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD, offering a window into funerary rites practiced by a population that neither buried nor cremated its dead — long before that same principle produced the famous Towers of Silence. The find comes from Odirmon, a site […]

El conjunto, datado provisionalmente entre el siglo III a.C. y el III d.C., ofrece una ventana a los ritos funerarios de una población que, siglos antes de que se levantaran las célebres Torres del Silencio, ya trataba a sus muertos de un modo muy particular: ni los enterraba ni los incineraba. El hallazgo se ha […]