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The Pazyryk Carpet: The Oldest Known Pile Carpet
The Pazyryk Carpet is the world’s oldest surviving pile carpet. It was discovered in 1949 during the excavation of the Fifth Pazyryk Burial Mound in the Altai Mountains by an expedition from the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
The dating of the carpet remains debated, with estimates ranging widely from the late 6th to the 2nd century BCE.
Its origins are equally uncertain. Scholars propose various possibilities, suggesting it may have been woven by Persians, Parthians, Medes, Urartians, early Armenians, or even Scythians.
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The Pazyryk Carpet is the world’s oldest surviving pile carpet. It was discovered in 1949 during the excavation of the Fifth Pazyryk Burial Mound in the Altai Mountains by an expedition from the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
The dating of the carpet remains debated, with estimates ranging widely from the late 6th to the 2nd century BCE.
Its origins are equally uncertain. Scholars propose various possibilities, suggesting it may have been woven by Persians, Parthians, Medes, Urartians, early Armenians, or even Scythians.
#science #history