The eight tubes — which date back more than 5,000 years — were first unearthed from Maikop kurgan ... straws not only within the goods of the the Maikop burial mound, but in a prized position ...

The straws, along with one of the beer vessels, were found at the Maikop kurgan, a prehistoric burial mound in the northern ... and tools were included in the grave. And then, there was a set ...

Known as a kurgan from the Old Turkic, the burial site was discovered outside of Maikop, a village in the northwestern Caucasus. The mound dated to the Early Bronze Age, some 5,500 years ago ...

The tubes were found alongside one of three skeletons in a burial mound known as the Maikop kurgan, which was excavated in 1897. The richly furnished mound also contained hundreds of other ...

Originally discovered in 1897 at an ancient burial mound in the Maikop Kurgan in the Caucuses, the eight straws, more than 5,000 years old, were originally thought to be canopy poles or scepters.

The straws, along with one of the beer vessels, were found at the Maikop kurgan, a prehistoric burial mound in the northern ... and tools were included in the grave. And then, there was a set ...