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  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh take compass bearing on the orientation of an ancient horse skull in a 2700+ year-old, bronze age  "khirigsuur" burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.
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  • Mongolian archaeologist Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan ("Bayaraa") unearths ancient horse skull in a 2700+ year-old, bronze age  "khirigsuur" burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia., Mongolia., Mongolia.  A deer stone of similar age is in the background.
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  • Mongolian archaeologist Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan ("Bayaraa") unearths ancient horse skull in a 2700+ year-old, bronze age  "khirigsuur" burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060626-008.jpg
  • A sacred "ovo"shrine where travelers leave offerings in Yolyn Am, a canyon called "The Vulture's Mouth" in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-163.jpg
  • A Chachapoyan (pre-Incan) mummy at the cultural museum in Chachapoyas.
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  • Tumen Ekh, a Mongolian national folklore ensemble, performs a Tibetan Buddhist Tsam dance in Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 080719-204.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Darhad Valley. "Ovo" shrine above Lake Dood Noor, where travelers leave talismans, such as skulls of prized horses, scarves, money, vodka bottles or religious artifacts. These reflect spiritual traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, animism and shamanism.
    MGe 060704-219.jpg
  • An "Ovo" shrine lies above Lake Dood Noor,  in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley. Travelers revere these sites and often leave talismans, such as skulls of prized horses, scarves, money, vodka bottles or religious artifacts. These reflect spiritual traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, animism and shamanism.  Here, the crutches may be either from someone who was cured from a broken bone, or from someone deceased.
    MGe 060704-216.jpg
  • An "Ovo" shrine lies above Lake Dood Noor,  in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley. Travelers revere these sites and often leave talismans, such as skulls of prized horses, scarves, money, vodka bottles or religious artifacts. These reflect spiritual traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, animism and shamanism.  Here, the crutches may be either from someone who was cured from a broken bone, or from someone deceased.
    MGe 060704-216.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Darhad Valley. "Ovo" shrine above Lake Dood Noor, where travelers leave talismans, such as skulls of prized horses, scarves, money, vodka bottles or religious artifacts. These reflect spiritual traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, animism and shamanism.
    MGe 060704-218.jpg
  • An "Ovo" shrine lies above Lake Dood Noor,  in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley. Travelers revere these sites and often leave talismans, such as skulls of prized horses, scarves, money, vodka bottles or religious artifacts. These reflect spiritual traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, animism and shamanism.  Here, the crutches may be either from someone who was cured from a broken bone, or from someone deceased.
    MGe 060704-217.jpg
  • An ancient horse skull lies in a 2700+ year-old, bronze age  "khirigsuur" burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.  The site is associated with mysterious deer stone monuments.
    MGe 060626-011.jpg
  • During a Smithsonian Museum expedition, Amgalantugs Tsend, a Mongolian archaeology student, unearths a bronze-age skull at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The skull may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-098.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Nick Wiltsie holds bronze-age skull that may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-052.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skull at a site above Delger River near Muren, Mongolia.  This may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-042.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Offering of a prized horse skull and vodka bottle near an "ovo" monument and ancient petroglyphs above Lake Dood Noor.  This practice is a blend of Tibetan Buddhism, Animism and Shamanism
    MGe 060704-210.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, examines a bronze-age skull at an archaeology site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. This  may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-091.jpg
  • A 2700+ year-old skull lies in a khirigsur burial mound at an archaeological site near Muren, Mongolia.g
    MGe 060629-044.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skull may be 2700+ years old.  <br />
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  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  The skull may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-037.jpg
  • An offering of a prized horse skull and a vodka bottle sit on a rock near an "ovo" monument and ancient petroglyphs above Lake Dood Noor, in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley.  Offerings like this are a blend of Tibetan Buddhism, Animism and Shamanism
    MGe 060704-211.jpg
  • An offering of a prized horse skull and a vodka bottle sit on a rock near an "ovo" monument and ancient petroglyphs above Lake Dood Noor, in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley.  Offerings like this are a blend of Tibetan Buddhism, Animism and Shamanism
    MGe 060704-209.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skull may be 3700+ years old.  <br />
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    MGe 060629-088.jpg
  • A Bronze-age skull discovered at an archaeological site near Muren, Mongolia.  This  may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-054.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skull at a site above Delger River near Muren, Mongolia.  This   may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-040.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skull at a site above Delger River near Muren, Mongolia.  This   may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-035.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, examines a bronze-age skull at an archaeology site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. This  may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-090.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skull at an archaeology site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. This  may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-085.jpg
  • A Smithsonian Museum archaeology team unearths a skull in a 2700+ year-old, khirigsur burial mounds at site above Delger River, near Muren, Mongolia. <br />
(Pictured is Mongolian archaeology student, Manlaibaatar Sundev).
    MGe 060629-047.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-069.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.  <br />
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    MGe 060708-031.jpg
  • Archaeologists from the Smithsonian Museum unearth a Bronze-age skeleton at a site near Muren, Mongolia. These bones may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-026.jpg
  • Archaeologists from the Smithsonian Museum unearth a Bronze-age skeleton at a site near Muren, Mongolia. These bones may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-022.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-021.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age vertebrae at site above Delger River near Muren.  Bone may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-006.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 3700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-083.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at an archaeology site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. This  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-082.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at an archaeology site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. This  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-070.jpg
  • A Bronze-age skeleton lays in situ at an archaeological site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia.  These bones may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-065.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, & Amgalantugs Tsend, a Mongolian archaeology student, unearth a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-063.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, & Amgalantugs Tsend, a Mongolian archaeology student, unearth a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-056.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, & Amgalantugs Tsend, a Mongolian archaeology student, unearth a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-049.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich (center) unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia.  His colleague, Dr. William Fitzhugh (L), was studying nearby deer stones from the same period.
    MGe 060628-077.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-072.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.  <br />
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    MGe 060628-063.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-057.jpg
  • PERU. Chachapoyan (pre-Incan) mummy at cultural museum in Chachapoyas, Peru.
    PE 4711.jpg
  • Merchants sell beef in an outdoor market in upper Belem, a crowded neighborhood in Iquitos, Peru.
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  • An offering of abandoned crutches (possibly from a deceased person) lies atop an "ovo" monument near ancient petroglyphs above northern Mongolia's Lake Dood Noor.  Spiritual offerings like these arise from a blend of Tibetan Buddhism, Animism and Shamanism
    MGe 060704-212.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 3700+ years old.  <br />
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#MS0702_060629_0180.NEF
    MGe 060629-072.jpg
  • A Bronze-age skeleton lays in situ at an archaeological site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia.  These bones may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-067.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, & Amgalantugs Tsend, a Mongolian archaeology student, unearth a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.g
    MGe 060629-060.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, & Amgalantugs Tsend, a Mongolian archaeology student, unearth bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.  <br />
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#MS0702_060629_0062.NEF
    MGe 060629-054.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian Museum archaeology team unearths 2700+ year-old, khirigsur burial mounds at site above Delger River, near Muren. (Pictured are Eliza Wallace & Manlaibaatar Sundev.<br />
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    MGe 060629-045.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-076.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-073.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.  <br />
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#MS0702_060628_0295.NEF
    MGe 060628-068.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-059.jpg
  • Mike Butcher, an ardent anti-whaling resident of Port Stanley, the capital of Britain's Falkland Islands, has built a display of whale bone sculptures to show the creatures' magnificance.
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  • An elderly Uygur man walks a wooded lane near Kashgar (Kashi), a town on the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang, China.  His hat identifies him as a Muslim and perhaps because of that the Uygur people are widely oppressed in China - almost to the extent of the Tibetans.
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  • MONGOLIA. Darhad Valley. "Ovo" shrine atop a small pass, where travelers leave talismans, such as skulls of prized horses or religious artifacts. These reflect spiritual traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, animism and shamanism.
    MGe 060702-054.jpg
  • A steer skull and horns decorate the entrance to an adobe building at Ghost Ranch, near Abiquiu, New Mexico.
    NMe 060719-158-2.jpg
  • A steer skull and horns decorate the entrance to an adobe building at Ghost Ranch, near Abiquiu, New Mexico.
    NMe 060719-156-2.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist and carvings of buddhas and saints prayers are carved on rocks - even a yak skull - in a Mani wall in southeastern Tibet, China. (“Mani” is from the prayer “Om mani padme hung,” (Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus.)
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  • Tibetan Buddhist and carvings of buddhas and saints prayers are carved on rocks - even a yak skull - in a Mani wall in southeastern Tibet, China. (“Mani” is from the prayer “Om mani padme hung,” (Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus.)
    TS 3978.jpg
  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru.  A skull, probably Incan, tossed aside by grave robbers on Cerro Victoria.
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  • FRANZ JOSEF LAND, Russia. Seal skull at Cape Fiume on Champa Island in this Arctic Ocean archipeligo.
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