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Tuvan Treasures will be Still in the Hermitage

20 June 2005 | 4726 views | 0 comments

Head of the Tuvan Government and director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovski decided that the treasures from the the burial mound (kurgan) Arzhan-2 will go on being kept on the Hermitage. Temporarily, while the new building of the Tuvan museum where the artefacts were to be on show is still under construction. In summer 2001 researchers unearthed the richest early Scythian burial site not only in Siberia but in the entire steppe zone of Eurasia. Deer - top portion of headgear. 2nd half of the 7th century B.C. Photo courtesy of hermitagemuseum.org

Deer - top portion of headgear. 2nd half of the 7th century B.C. Photo courtesy of hermitagemuseum.org

The excavations were carried out by the Central Asian Archeological Expedition created by the St Petersburg Branch of the Russian Research Institute into the Cultural and Natural Science Heritage under the RF Ministry of Culture and the Russian Academy of Sciences together with the Eurasian Section of the German Archeological Institute in Berlin and its director Professor Herman Parzinger as well as Dr. Anatolii Nagler. The excavation work was led by the head of the Central Asian Expedition, Konstantin V.Chugunov.

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