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Nineteen bracelets on one woman
Top image: The striking remains of the woman buried with 19 bronze bracelets and 8 rings on her hands. Source: Institute of Archaeology RAS

Nineteen bracelets on one woman

Chechnya. about 3,000 years old. First cities. Known. Free

Known. She was buried with 19 bronze bracelets and eight rings.

Her grave is at the Khumyk-2 burial ground, in Chechnya. It is about 3,000 years old. The burials belong to the Eastern Koban culture, from the 10th century BC to the first half of the 8th century BC. The dead were laid crouched on the left side, heads toward the south-east. The page says this ground may hold as many as 2,000 graves, and 160 were examined.

The page does not say what is still argued.

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