The Oldest Rug in the World: Pazyryk Carpet (5th century B.C.) [1008×1070]

The Pazyryk rug was found at 5400 feet above sea level, in the grave of a Scythian nobleman, near the Altai Mountains in Kazakhstan in 1949. It had been very well preserved in a thick sheet of ice, protecting it for twenty-five centuries. by OilInternational2566