Ukrainian Treasures Museum
Treasury museum of Scythian gold and jewels, home to a famed solid-gold pectoral from a steppe tomb.
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This guide to the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine in Kyiv goes back to a burial mound on the southern steppe in June 1971, where archaeologist Borys Mozolevsky was digging a grave that ancient robbers had already broken into. It follows a factory stoker turned poet and scholar, the horse-riding Scythians who ruled these grasslands, and the looters who got there first. Best heard standing at the gold pectoral's case.
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