pazyryk carpet::Rudenko opened an ice tomb in a highland valley in the altai mountains in siberia pazyryk carpet

pazyryk carpet

pazyryk carpet

pazyryk carpet::Rudenko opened an ice tomb in a highland valley in the altai mountains in siberia.
Valley of the dead in the local telengit language lies 1,600 metres above sea level in the altai range at the heart of euroasian landmass.
The kurgans are thought to have been built in the 5th4th centuries bc.
Today the pazyryk rug is preserved and displayed in the state hermitage museum and the institude of archaeology in st.
The rug is preserved because the water inside the burial pit had frozen.
The carpet emerged from the pit as an ice ball, but once thawed and opened out, it proved to be an almost complete symmetrical knotted pile rug with just a few splits and one corner missing.
The pazyryk carpet s almost square, measuring 1.
pazyryk carpet::There are several different archeological findings that
prove to us that the art of weaving and tying to create a rug is
something that has been around for thousands of years pazyryk carpet