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Royal burial mounds, Kurmenty of Tyup
district, Issyk-Kul region.
The royal burial mounds stretch from the mountain foothills to the
lake, in which the noble Scythian-Saka were buried. There are similar
areas available in both the Issyk-Kul, and in other areas of Kyrgyzstan.
This burial structure of Saks-pastoralists was of those living in the
territory of Central Asia since VII century BC. AD, being a formidable
force who stopped the Persian hordes of Cyrus and Darius, and then Alexander
of Macedon. All the rulers of Europe and Asia respect these people for
reckless courage and love of freedom. Its the Saks that led their legendary
queen Tomiris gave a fitting rebuff to the army of Persian King Cyrus the
Great. When the queen has been brought the severed head of Cyrus, she ordered
to give her a leather wineskin filled with blood, she then put his head
it with the following words: “You want blood? Then drink it in abundance!”
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