Ancient watchtower in Upper Balkaria, 1999

Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia. The high-mountain village of Upper Balkaria can be called an actual museum reserve, because it is situated in a valley where ancient people of Balkars started settling in the 13th century. Since that time there can be found ruins of auls [villages], strongholds, watchtowers (like the one pictured), sepulchres, and mausoleums build of stone. Valery Matytsin/ITAR-TASS

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