Ancient Buried Treasures of South Siberia

V. E. Larichev, A. P. Borodovsky

"This must be a part left in the field after a repair and then ploughed deep into the ground," thought Semion Alekseevich as the share of his plough, drawn by a Kirovets, dug up something bulky. All of a sudden, ribbons of dazzlingly white birch bark spread out like a fan on the black clods. "What on earth is the birch bark doing here, in the steppe?" Semion Alekseevich got out of the tractor, gripped two massive ears sticking out of the ground and pulled hardЕ It was a huge cauldron made of red bronze"

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