ANCIENT BOOT
FOUND IN SIBERIA
G'day folks,
This exquisitely-designed women’s boot was
discovered in Siberia's Altai mountains in 1948.
This stunning shoe is
believed to be 2,300 years old and was worn by a Scythian woman around
300–290 BC. Ancient Scythians, also called Scyth, Saka, and Sacae, were
nomadic people who traveled through the Eurasian continent. This shoe
features elaborately bedazzled patterns and is made of leather, textile,
tin, and gold.
The immaculate condition of the shoe has mystified historians.
Many
believe that this might be because such shoes were particularly made for
Scythian burial mounds. Scythians were known to construct wooded
structures deep in the ground to place their dead. Each body was placed
inside a log coffin, along with many of their essentials, which they
thought their dead needed for the eternal rides of the afterlife.
This red cloth-wrapped leather boot, now a part of the State Hermitage
Museum‘s collection in St Petersburg, Russia, is likely to have belonged
to a high-ranking woman.
Clancy's comment: That is one flash boot. Nike would be proud of it.
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