Kurgan
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- proper noun
- The Inner Shrine was like a burial kurgan, dug into the base of the watchtower, flanked by the horse stalls and sweat lodge.
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Another possibility is that the woman was from another group that took possession of the kurgan to mark a claim on the territory.
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The first Indo-European ("Kurgan") incursion into Europe (ca. 4400-4300 B.C.) moved from the Lower Volga to the Lower Dnieper region, into the areas west of the Black Sea.
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Soon after the burial, grave robbers dug into the kurgan, taking the most precious artifacts.
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The major thrust of the Kurgan incursions was directed toward the southeast, toward the classical centers of Old European civilization in the Danube valley.
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Below, a gilded feline head that once decorated the side of the Kurgan 11 coffin closely resembles Chinese styles of the period.
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And two years ago, the president of Mongolia showed me chessmen discovered when they were searching for the grave of Genghis Khan and excavated a kurgan.
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Hoping to find similar burials, we were drawn to Kazakhstan's Bukhtarma Valley, high in the Altai Mountains, where in 1996 we selected a kurgan near the village of Berel for excavation.
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In one kurgan (n3) burial in the permafrost region of the Altai Mountains at Pazyryk, dating to the fourth or third century B.C., a felt tent panel has been preserved upon which a goddess of fertility is depicted in association with the Tree of Life:
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Kurgan is the administrative centre of Kurgan Oblast in southwestern Siberia.
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Many people believe that Kurgan has a rich cultural history and stunning architecture.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Kurgan comes from a Turkic word kurgan meaning 'mound' or 'burial hill'. The town got this name because the area has many ancient burial mounds, so the name points to the landscape and the region's past.