Mapping and Damage Assessment of “Royal” Burial Mounds in the Siberian Valley of the Kings

Caspari, Gino (2020). Mapping and Damage Assessment of “Royal” Burial Mounds in the Siberian Valley of the Kings. Remote sensing, 12(5), p. 773. Molecular Diversity Preservation International MDPI 10.3390/rs12050773

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The Valley of the Kings in Tuva Republic, southern Siberia, is arguably one of the most important archaeological landscapes in the eastern Eurasian steppes. Nonetheless, little information exists about the spatial characteristics and preservation conditions of this burial ground consisting of large “royal” mounds. We map the large monuments of the Uyuk Valley’s northern river terrace and assess their state of preservation based on high-resolution optical satellite data. The burial site consists of several hundred mounds, over 150 of them with diameters of more than 25 m, the largest monuments are bigger than 100 m in diameter. This makes the Valley of the Kings in Tuva Republic one of the largest Early Iron Age burial sites in the Eurasian steppes. Unfortunately, around 92% of the large monuments are in bad condition, mostly due to looting.

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