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Archaeologists have discovered in Kazakhstan the burial of a girl – a representative of the nomadic elite of the Hunnic time. She was buried in royal vestments with a lot of jewelry in the V-VI centuries adhttps://t.co/NyuASq65Wi — N + 1 (@nplusodin) December 28, 2021 During the ongoing excavations near the city of Karakabak in the south-east of Kazakhstan, archaeologists examined a previously found burial mound from the time of the Huns (5-6 centuries AD) and found the remains of a girl, presumably belonging to the nomadic elite and buried in royal vestments. The grave turned out to be looted, but the criminals did not take away numerous gold jewelry, but the skull of the buried girl. In addition to the bones, scientists found in the burial a gold lining of a wooden belt buckle, a gold earring, a rich headdress resembling the diadem of Byzantine kings, parts of a

Fotografía y dibujo lineal del cuerpo del espécimen holotipo de Brevirostruavis macrohyoideus, nueva ave del Cretácico descubierta en China ?Li, Stidham, Zhou, Clarke, 2021 pic.twitter.com/NiG82GDAbS — CRCpaleos (@CRCpaleos) December 28, 2021 The bird, which lived simultaneously with the dinosaurs on the territory of modern China, had an unusually long tongue. As scientists found out, its size exceeded the length of the head of a fossil creature, whose fossilized skeleton, 120 million years old, was discovered in the northeast of the country. Some modern birds, such as woodpeckers or hummingbirds, also have a very long tongue. But the extinct bird, which was named Brevirostruavis macrohyoideus (which means “a bird with a short head and a big tongue”) is the earliest such example, scientists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as the University of Texas at Austin, who owns the discovery. The team hypothesized that

Researchers open possible time capsule from 1887 found in Robert E Lee statue pedestal – video https://t.co/2TyZwAsMI5 — Guardian news (@guardiannews) December 28, 2021 Historians and officials from the city of Richmond, Virginia, decided not to delay for a long time with the opening of the second time capsule, which was found on Monday, December 27, at the base of the pedestal of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Initially, they wanted to open it after the New Year holidays, but the analysis of the copper box showed that there could be water inside, and therefore it is necessary to extract artifacts from it as soon as possible. In the presence of officials and journalists, historians opened the capsule. In a copper box weighing about 16 kilograms, they found many artifacts more than 130 years old: a button, a business card, handwritten letters, wet copies of the Harper’s

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