“The Greek historian Herodotus wrote in 430 BC that Scythians used wooden stakes to pose dead men atop dead horses in an open-air tableau around the graves of their kings. Excavations at Tunnug 1 suggest a similar display was created hundreds of years before Herodotus's account.”
A 2,800-year-old royal burial in Siberia includes what archaeologists think were people posed on horseback — after both the humans and the horses had been slain as sacrifices go.nature.com/4eWGdv4
New rconstruction of St. Nicholas of Myra.
Through forensic analysis of St. Nicholas of Myra’s skull, scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of the man who inspired the legend of Santa Claus.
