Women's jewelry discovered in an ancient necropolis in Crimea

Archaeologists have discovered gold and silver women's jewelry of the V-VI centuries in the Almalyk-dere burial ground in Crimea, the largest early medieval necropolis of Mangup, the press service of the Vernadsky KFU reports.

Among the finds - earrings, rivets from the belt set, fibulae, shoe buckles, applications for collar decoration. The excavations were conducted in previously unexplored areas.

"It turned out that there are funerary complexes as the initial stage of functioning of the necropolis (the end of IV - the first half of the V century), and later time (in particular, there are complexes of the VI century)", - said the Acting Dean of the Faculty of History of the university Valery Naumenko, his quote quotes IA SevastopolMedia.

According to him, despite the strong looting of these complexes, there are things of independent scientific interest. Naumenko suggested that rich women were most likely buried in the crypts.

They also found a pixie - a product made of horn for storing rouge and powder, a red-lacquer plate, broken in antiquity. Specialists restored it completely.

Earlier it was reported that in the Crimea found the remains of the temple, which is more than 2 thousand years old. It turned out that the Bosporans used it for sacrifices.