Editing Saka (section)

===Arzhan 2 ({{circa|650 BC}})===
{{see also|Aldy-Bel culture}}
[[File:Аржаан - 2.JPG|thumb|Arzhan 2 kurgan (7th-6th centuries BC, associated with the [[Aldy-Bel culture]]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chugunov |first1=K. V. |last2=Parzinger |first2=H. |last3=Nagler |first3=A. |title=Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia |chapter=Chronology and Cultural Affinity of the Kurgan Arzhan-2 Complex According to Archaeological Data |series=NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences |date=2005 |volume=42 |pages=1–7 |doi=10.1007/1-4020-2656-0_1 |chapter-url=|publisher=Springer Netherlands |isbn=1-4020-2655-2 |language=en}}</ref>]]
Arzhan-2 was an undisturbed burial.<ref name="Man20">{{cite book |last=Man |first=John |author-link=John Man (author) |date=2020 |title=Empire of Horses: The First Nomadic Civilization and the Making of China |location=New York |publisher=Pegasus Books |page=20 |isbn=978-1-64313-327-0}}</ref> Archaeologists found a royal couple, sixteen murdered attendants, and 9,300 objects.<ref name="Man20"/> 5,700 of these artifacts were made of gold, weighing a Siberian record-breaking twenty kilograms.<ref name="Man20"/> The male, who researchers guess was some sort of king, wore a golden [[torc]], a jacket decorated with 2,500 golden panther figurines, a gold-encrusted dagger on a belt, trousers sewn with golden beads, and gold-cuffed boots.<ref name="Man20"/> The woman wore a red cloak that was also covered in 2,500 golden panther figurines, as well as a golden-hilted iron dagger, a gold comb, and a wooden ladle with a golden handle.<ref name="Man20"/>

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File:Arzhan deer.jpg|"Animal style" deer, (7-6th century BC) Tuva.
File:6. Pectorale burial mound Arzhan (VIII. - VII. B. C.) Tuva.JPG|Pectoral plate, from burial mound Arzhan (7-6th century BC) Tuva.
File:8. Akinak (dagger) bural mound Arzhan (VIII.-VII. B.C.) Tuva.JPG|Akinak (dagger) burial mound Arzhan (7-6th century BC) Tuva.
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