Bronze Age Chariot Burial in the Caucasus

Archaeologists in Georgia, in the south Caucasus, have dug into a large kurgan (burial mound) and found a wooden chamber containing an elaborate burial. The finds date to the Bronze Age, around 2000 BCE. The mound was robbed long ago and the bones of seven skeletons were scattered around the tomb, the main one apparently a middle-aged man, the others either his relatives or sacrificed servants.

The robbers left a good deal of loot behind behind, including the remains of two wooden, four-wheeled chariots, and some wonderful artifacts:

ornamented clay and wooden vessels, flint and obsidian arrowheads, leather and textile artifacts, a unique wooden armchair, carnelian and amber beads and 23 golden artifacts.