While undertaking the soil digging works at the Changtepa Hill the workers have come across the unknown subjects, the Jahon news agency reported quoting Pravda Vostoka daily reported.

According to the newspaper, with an aim to reveal the origins of the discoveries at the Changtepa Hill and preserve their safety the heads of the Denov District in Surkhandarya Province invited the archaeologist Bakhodir Turghunov from Tashkent.

At the same time, the paper reminds that the archaeological discoveries found in Denov District in the former settlement area of Kholchayan had excited not o­nly the local experts. At the moment, those discoveries – the material evidence of how our far ancestors had lived in the long past – are preserved in various museums of the world.

"Having undertaken the thorough excavations we have discovered the specially-made egg-shaped coffin with 177 cm at its length and 50 cm in width. The cover of the coffin has also well been preserved. There had been a man’s skeleton. The initial examination has revealed that the man’s head and its lower parts had suffered injuries, but the spinal column had remained intact," the archaeologist Turghunov is reported to have said.

"The dagger had been alongside his chest – half a meter at its length. Indeed, the time is merciless – the wooden sword-hilt has rotten, but the metallic part looks well", he added.

Yet there has been another discovery worth of attention – the metallic plate with a depiction of the beast bared teeth.

The Uzbek scientist believed that the skeleton could belong to the military leader. Everything, which has been discovered, could be dated as back as 4-8th centuries A.D. This is supported by another fact that in 70s the similar tomb next the king’s palace had been discovered during excavations at the place of Dalvarzintepa of the neighboring Shurchi District.