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The scientific significance of gold


Between the 18th and 20th of August, Dr. Anja Hellmuth Kramberger attended the international conference “The Gold Treasure of Ebreichsdorf. Prehistoric Gold Finds in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BC in Europe” held at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna and organized by Dr. Karina Grömer.

She spoke about one of the most essential and exciting finds of the Early Iron Age in Slovenia, discovered in the burial mound necropolis of Stična in Lower Carniola (Dolenjska region). In the so-called tumulus 48, an exceptional set of jewelry was found, representing the most significant find of gold objects from the Early Iron Age in Slovenia to date, and is kept in the National Museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana. 

Some of the gold finds are of great scientific interest because the objects show influences from the culture of mounted nomads of the northern Black Sea region, today Ukraine, which is, for the first millennium BC associated with the Scythians.