Issyk Golden Cataphract Warrior

The Issyk Golden Cataphract Warrior, is a suit of armor consisting of thousands of gold pieces found by chance in 1969 during the construction of a garage and road improvement works at the Issyk burial mound in the south of the country of Almaty. It was recovered from the Issyk kurgan, which was examined by a team of archaeologists from the Kazakhstan Institute of History, Ethnography and Archaeology headed by Kimal Akishev.

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