OMSK, RUSSIA—Two 2,700-year-old graves thought to belong to the Irmen culture have been excavated in southwestern Siberia by Mikhail Korusenko of the Omsk Branch of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Siberian Times reports that a knife and a buckle have been found in one of the graves, which are thought to be part of a Bronze Age necropolis first discovered more than 100 years ago during a construction project. Workers were renovating the building when they found these burials. To read about another Bronze Age site in Russia, go to "Wolf Rites of Winter."