by Yaroslav V. Vassilkov
Numerous publications appeared in Russia in the late 1990s related to a series
of so-called “rattle-mirrors” unearthed in Scythian burial mounds, mostly in
the Altai mountains, South Siberia.
The first mirror of this kind (Fig.1) was found by the archaeologist
Sergei Rudenko in 1947 in a burial chamber inside the Second Pazyryk
mound. Its owner was a young woman buried together with a man of a high
social rank (probably the ruler of a tribe or union of tribes).
On the reverse of the mirror between two (inner and outer) circular
rims there are 12 perfectly regular concentric circles obviously drawn with the
help of compasses. Between each two circles there is a row of triangles
looking like flames of fire or the rays of the sun. It can be maintained with
certainty that the whole makes a “solar” design.
Fig. 1. The mirror from the Second Pazyryk mound. Hermitage Museum. Photo by A. B. Nikitin
...The large-scale import of Indian high-tin bronze mirrors to the
Eurasian steppe started in the fourth century BC and continued until the
fourth century AD -- i.e. lasted for many centuries. And, to the best of my
knowledge, until the present time this fact has escaped the attention of
historians of India.
Read on...http://www.laurasianacademy.com/Mirrorscompressed.pdf