The carpet can be seen at the hermitage museum in saint petersburg russia.
Pazyryk carpet date.
The pazyryk culture is a scythian nomadic iron age archaeological culture c.
Bc now in the hermitage museum in st.
At over 2 000 years old the pazyryk carpet is the oldest in the world but its beauty remains timeless.
The pazyryk rug is one of the oldest carpets in the world dating around 5th c.
The pazyryk rug was found in 1949 in the grave of a scythian nobleman in the bolshoy ulagan dry valley of the altai mountains in kazakhstan.
When it was found it had been deeply frozen in a block of ice which is why it is so well preserved.
Altai territory pazyryk boundary the valley of the river bolshoy ulagan.
The pazyryk carpet it is believed that the first carpets appeared around the second millennium bc in east asia although remains of woven sheep wool date from the 7th millennium bc.
5th 4th century bc.
6th to 3rd centuries bc identified by excavated artifacts and mummified humans found in the siberian permafrost in the altay mountains kazakhstan and nearby mongolia.
5 excavations by s i.
The pazyrk rug had been frozen in the ice and it was very well preserved.
Article by nazmiyal antique rugs.