Dancing Figurine from Ancient India Travelled Silk Road To Siberia!

During excavations along the shore of the Ob River near Novosibirsk in southwestern Siberia, a tiny, sculpted object was unearthed that has archaeologists and historians puzzled. The object was a four-inch (10-centimeter) bronze humanlike dancing figurine, which was sculpted in a way that seems to portray an individual in movement. This unusual Siberian-Indian dancing figurine has caused much excitement and for good reason.

Professor Andrey Borodovsky, an archaeologist with the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told The Siberian Times that the statue portrays an Indian religious dancer, and that it was likely produced in Northern India around the year 100 BC. Since Novosibirsk and India are separated by 2,500 to 3,000 miles (4,000 to 5,000 kilometers) of quite rugged and often mountainous land, it was quite a surprise to find such a statue on Siberian soil.

This find is highly anomalous, which is why Professor Borodovsky has labeled it “one of the most significant ever made” in Siberian archaeology.