Aiud History Museum 2011 - Scythian Items
Scythian artefacts originating from sites in Transylvania, in display at Aiud History Museum, Aiud, Romania
In June 1971, archaeologist Borys Mozolevsky uncovered a coiled gold pectoral weighing over a kilogram in a burial mound near the Ukrainian village of Ordzhonikidze. This remarkable find, adorned with herdsmen, animals, and mythical beasts, marked a significant discovery in the exploration of Scythian burial mounds, known as kurgans. The Scythians, a confederation of horse-riding nomads, dominated the Pontic-Caspian steppe from the 7th to the 3rd century BC. Their history, largely unwritten by themselves, is pieced together through the accounts of Herodotus and the archaeological evidence found in these kurgans. See our article on the Gold of the Dead: Inside the Royal Kurgans of the Scythians.
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