Golden cup, a masterpiece of 3000 year history

AliAtiyabi

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Golden Cup depicting Griffin on top band. Excavated at Marlik, Gilan, Iran. First half of first millennium BC.The archaeology is generally assumed to have belonged to a people group who spoke an Iranian language and who migrated into Iran from Central Asia in early to mid-2nd millennium BCE. The abundance of arms, horse-trappings (as well as horse burials), and spouted vessels among the grave goods has been cited as distinct Iranian signatures (Kurochkin). The exact attribution of these people, however, remains largely a conjecture.
 

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A bad of pure wild Arabian horses was recently discovered in northern Iran whose DNA is carried by every Arabian horse in the world. The true ancestor of all Arabians. These horses were the reason the Chicness and Moguls came west.
 

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