A resident of the Kursk region has found a treasure worth a million dollars

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A resident of the Kursk region accidentally found a unique antiquities dating from the end of IV - beginning of V century. Employees of FSB and the police department in the Kursk region transferred finds in the Regional Museum of Archaeology.

The regional police department reported that a resident of Zheleznogorsk district of the Kursk region Gennady Zimin found over 100 items of gold and silver, inlaid with precious stones and mosaics, according to Interfax. Items were found in Fatezhskom area in May last year, when a man came there in search of black metal.
trove Zimin sold for 50,000 rubles, two collectors of the Kursk, and Bryansk regions . However, investigators seized antiquities, to prevent their removal. The found values were subjected to multiple examinations, including archaeological, artistic and historical.
At the site of the excavation, archaeologists have found and other items. Thus, it was discovered two sets of belts of silver and bronze gilt lining, two swords in a sheath, coated with gold plates with colored mosaics, silver bits, horse sled decoration of gold and gold-plated lining adorned with hand grenades, and a saddle, lined with gold plates. The total cost of discovery is estimated at more than $ 1 million.
(Vesti.Ru)