Show burial mounds built by ancient mongols Mon gols the similarity of the burial mounds in siberia north ot of the gobi with those several thousand miles distant on the black sea seems to indicate that they were built by the mongols perhaps in the age of genghis khan perhaps in the day of tamerlane as call tim nr ar 1 lang perhaps in the time of the kha nates of central asia the golden horde etc in the sixteenth century no one knows for certain there are also found in the steppes perlous stone warriors and ana women that face always to the east and I 1 think the figure monuments of siberia are very much like them the cossacks relate that when these stone women are carried away to make gate posts for a house jo in some russian Itus tillage age it takes a halt half dozen oxen to drag them to the west although one can draw them back again at any rate most of the cossacks are extremely unwilling to dig up the burfal sites eltes the kurgans A hundred years ago the british explorer clarke asked the hetman of the don cos sacks for some come men from ho he village to help him the next day the men were ready enough until they found out that he be wanted to uncover a nearby near by kurgan they refused point blank said it was unthinkably unlucky and clarke did not get a look at the inside of f the mouna adventure magazine |