A stele (/ˈstiːli/ STEE-lee), from Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the...

Kurgan stelae Kurgan stelae or Balbals (Ukrainian: балбал, most probably from Turkic word balbal meaning "ancestor" or "grandfather") are anthropomorphic...

is also features on its flag. A stele from Melgunov Kurgan, now stored in Kropyvnytskyi Local History Museum A stele found near Kropyvnytskyi that is...

Kernosivskyi idol, or Kernosivsky idol (Ukrainian: Керносівський ідол) is a Kurgan stele dating from the mid–3rd millennium BC. It was discovered in 1973 in the...

Usatove include clay figurines and painted ceramics, while it shares tumulus (kurgan) burials and shell-tempered coarse wares with steppe cultures. It also displays...

colossal neoclassicist and socialist realist war memorial sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. Designed primarily by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich with...

archaeology and carried out the first archaeological excavations of Siberian kurgans. After a temporary reduction of interest in the first half of the nineteenth...

period, about 2800-2600 years ago. Of particular interest are the Hakkari kurgan stelae. The museum was founded in 1945. In 2011 it was affected by two earthquakes...

Turkic inscriptions from the 8th-10th century CE, found near Yenisei Kyrgyz kurgans located in the Upper and Middle basins of the Yenisei River in modern-day...

bas-relief triptych is on the southwestern side of the kurgan. Sculpted into three concrete stele are reliefs depicting a soldier in the helmet, a laurel...