Mysterious double tombs in Siberia

Recent archaeologists excavated many graves of double burial or family burial in Siberia, dating back about 3,500 years.

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In the village of Staryi Tartas, Novosibirsk province, Russia, archaeologists discovered about 600 graves. These tombs are buried from 3,500 before and belong to the Bronze Age.

When conducting excavations, the research team of the Siberian Institute of Archeology and Ethnology, directly under the Russian Academy of Sciences, was surprised to find that many graves have two skeletons.

In a tomb there is also the skeleton of an adult and a child.

Or the common grave is said to be of parents and two children in a family.

Especially many tombs are the burial place of a male, a female in a state of holding hands, turning around or embracing each other.

According to the hypothesis of experts, this may be the burial place of the husband in the family. However, after the husband died, the wife was killed and buried with her husband.

Professor Lev Klein, from the University of St Petersburg, said that the burial of these double tombs may be related to spiritual issues or beliefs about reincarnation in other people's lives of this period.

Researchers said that when they established the relationship of those buried in the same grave, they would understand the burial rites of the ancients.