More than 50 ancient burials discovered in the Baksan gorge
Archaeologists have found more than 50 burials in Kabardino-Balkaria This is reported by TASS. Research at the Zayukovo-3 burial ground was carried out by the members of the United North Caucasian Archaeological Expedition. They managed to find a record number of burials since 2014, including the oldest burial of the 8th century BC. “This year we worked for more than a month, the productive season turned out to be, we found 52 burials, this is a record number in history our excavations of the burial ground. True, the bulk of them belonged to children, we went to the children's section of the necropolis and, accordingly, the upper layer was precisely children's burials. It is rather difficult to date them, since almost all of them were without inventory, “said Anna Kadieva, a researcher at the Department of Archaeological Monuments of the State Historical Museum. During the work, specialists also found a