A pile-woven wool carpet excavated from a frozen Scythian burial mound in the Pazyryk Valley of Siberia, dated to around the fifth to fourth century BCE. Preserved by permafrost, it is the oldest known surviving pile carpet in the world and offers rare direct evidence of ancient nomadic textile technique and design.
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While many of the tombs had already been looted in earlier times, the excavators unearthed buried horses, and with them immaculately preserved cloth saddles, felt and woven rugs including the world's oldest pile carpet, a 3-metre-high four-wheel funeral chariot from the 5th century BCE and other splendid objects that had escaped the ravages of time.
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