Tourism and Culture : Victor Sarianidi's finds from Gonur-Depe handed to Turkmen museum

Among new exhibits of the museum there are unique bronze items, including a seal in the form of flowers, male and female terracotta statuettes, fragments of images of animals - horses, deer, and fish made of porcelain and earthenware, original items made of stone such as a pyramid in the shape a snake, beads and even pistachio nuts. The exhibition also included a series of mosaics with ornamental details and storylines compositions that decorated walls and grave goods of royal mausoleums, the samples of ceramic tableware and other items. According to the most famous archaeologist, until recently science has not seen such works of so distant past.

Posted: 14.6.09 || Overviews: 849