Mysterious 'mustached' burial mounds in Kazakhstan date to the Middle Ages
Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered 10 centuries-old burial mounds , known as kurgans, dating to the Middle Ages. Found in the Ulytau region of central Kazakhstan, three of the kurgans are what archaeologists call "mustached kurgans" or "mustache kurgans" Zhanbolat Utubaev , an archaeologist at the Margulan Institute of Archaeology who led the team that discovered the kurgans, told Live Science in an email. These are burial mounds with ridges of stone going across them, Utubaev said. "Mustached" kurgans from the Middle Ages (from approximately 600 to 1500) are common in Kazakhstan; more than 400 of them have been discovered in central Kazakhstan alone, Utubaev said. These mounds have diameters ranging from about 10 to 50 feet (3 to 15 meters) in length, he said. The team excavated one kurgan that does not have a " mustache " and found the remains of a man who was buried with an arrowhead that is triangular, Utubaev said. It's