Word: kozloff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Mongolia, assistants of Colonel Kozloff, Russian explorer, telegraphed their chief that tumuli (mounds) he had been investigating in the birch and pine forests of the Kentei Mountains, near Urga, had yielded wooden engravings and water color pictures. Explorer Kozloff had already found there figured carpets, silken fabrics, 700 books written in seven languages including Hindu and Chinese, bloodstained women's pigtails that suggested scalping. Earthenware established 200 B. C. as the probable date of the civilization to which tombs made of squared and planed logs, found at depths of 24 to 42 ft. underground, belonged...