Salbyk kurgan

Archaeological site in Russia

The Salbyk kurgan is a Saka funerary tumulus (kurgan), belonging to the Tagar culture. It is located in the "Valley of the Kings" in the western part of the Minusinsk hollow, 45 kilometers northwest of Abakan, Khakassia, Russia, and is dated to 500-300 BCE. Other sources date it to the 8th to 6th centuries BCE. The tumulus was 11 meters high, and its circumference about 500 meters. It is the largest tumulus of the Tagar culture. It was a tomb of a noble Saka man, with his slaves and wives. There are about 30 other kurgan tumuli in the "Valley of the Kings", although smaller than the Great Salbyk kurgan.

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