Spain's Mysterious Mummies - BBC

Each of the next three articles constitutes a window into an ill-known culture. Fernando Texiera and Izabela Cardoso convey a completely fascinating story of the Guanches, a pretty much lost original civilization in the Canary Islands. The embedded video starts out eerily and moves to images of stark grandeur and several enduring puzzles. In Mongolia a Perfectly Preserved Wooden Saddle is Nearly 1700 Years Old. The Horsetalk website in New Zealand shares with us items from a Rouran Khaganate cave burial. According to the team studying the 2015 find, the artifacts shed light on far-reaching contacts in the mid-first millennium CE. Besides the saddle, other "horsey" items were found as well as shoes. But the really fancy footwear comes from farther south as the CHA Unveils Newly Excavated Gilt-bronze Shoes from Silla Kingdom. The South Korean Cultural Heritage Administration discovered, besides horse saddles and other items of everyday use, a pair of shoes used only in funeral ceremonies. One of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, Silla occupied the south and central Korean Peninsula during the first millennium CE. (WM)

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