Comments on: 2,200-year-old warrior’s grave found in Russia

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:50:44 +0000

I hope so. Some high res color photography of the weapons would make me happy.

By: Cordate

Cordate — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:50:56 +0000

That mace sounds interesting! Hopefully we’ll see more of these artifacts in time.

By: rita Roberts

rita Roberts — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:19:19 +0000

Oh ! How I would have loved being there when this was discovered, and wouldnt it be nice if there was enough evidence to be able to reconstruct the warriors features. Thanks for this wonderful post.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:53:51 +0000

I love this!

By: D. B. Cooper

D. B. Cooper — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:21:00 +0000

Departed like a true warrior: armed to the teeth and in in your helmet and probably with your now long gone boots on.

A part of me sickens when I hear the word “pits” found at a site, especially with the possessions of a honored warrior discarded in the dirt. A whole community’s relationships, skills, craftsmanship, efforts and culture are in those holes filling with snow.

Stories like these are reminders of why we as humans have so many self-made problems.

By: lineasaved

lineasaved — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:24:46 +0000

Thank you so much for doing this blog; I could only find short mentions of this (with few pictures) elsewhere. You always have the best links/pictures/info! I hope they have someone sitting at each corner of this find 24 hours with guns and spotlights, and permission to use the former. Have you ever watched Time Team? The British seem to have a pretty good method to get people to turn in what they find, by offering the items for sale (although I think they should limit bidders to museums, sigh…).

By: miss sophie

miss sophie — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:10:01 +0000

"Iron bits, cheek pieces and one large bead were found on the remains of the horses, part of the tack they were buried with". One might wonder now, if there had been a -now looted- sarmatian cataphract. Unless an indicating samartian tomb stone is found, we will probably never know. The helmet, however, looks a bit like one of these samartian egg hats. -- Wherever our dark knight might end up now, may he rest there in peace.

By: Virginia Burton

Virginia Burton — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:08:52 +0000

Whenever I read stories like this, or the ones about metal dectorists finding hoards of jewels, I wonder if I would do the right thing and notify authorities immediately, or if I would slip at least one object into my pocket first. That gold and rock crystal fibula, for example: so small and beautiful. It was meant to be worn and touched and admired and I can imagine the finder thinking that it deserved to be out in the world, and not in a museum case. Of course, in this case, looters despoiled a grave and wrecked an important archaeological site, but what if the jewel had been dropped by one of the grave robbers and you just found it lying on the ground nearby?

I guess it’s lucky that I have neither a metal detector nor the energy to explore!