Nearly four millennia ago, a few hundred people or so called a city roughly the size of London’s Hyde Park in Kazakhstan home.

They lived in rows of mud brick homes along the banks of the Irtysh River, which flows through China’s Altai mountains and empties into Siberia.

After a day spent panning for tin and smelting tools, meat-loving locals snacked on cooked slabs of horse and drank horse milk.

This is the life that the people of Semiyarka, a 346-acre site dating to 1600BC, may have had, an expert behind a new study told Metro. Dan Lawrence, a landscape archaeologist at Durham University, is the co-author of a study published today in the journal Antiquity that says researchers have unearthed the ‘City of Seven Ravines’.

First identified in the early 2000s, archaeologists have now be

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