Scientists Working Above the Arctic Circle Find 1,000-year-old Persian Cup | Human Interest | Scoop.it
Scientists on a research expedition to monitor the permafrost in western Siberia, within the Arctic circle, discovered a fragment of a bronze cup tentatively dated back to between the tenth and eleventh centuries CE. Discovered “by random” near the Kara Sea, although artifacts of this type have been found in Siberia previously, they’ve never been …

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