The occupiers allegedly unearthed gold and silver women's jewelry of the V-VI centuries in Crimea

Russian so-called archaeologists have found a number of gold and silver jewelry in the Almalik Dere cemetery in the Bakhchisaray district of the temporarily occupied Crimea.

This was reported by Holos Kryma.

The findings include fibers, gold earrings, elements of a belt set (rivets) and shoe buckles, as well as patch decorations made of gold foil. The occupiers believe that these items indicate the burial of the aristocracy:

"Most likely, rich women were buried in both tombs where the items were found. There was gold jewelry: one woman had fibulae and gold applications, and the other woman had gold earrings, which are also quite unique. Earrings of this kind are quite rare in Crimea. Most likely, these particular earrings were imported, and the fibules were probably made in Crimea - in Chersonese or Bosporus."

In addition, the pseudo-archaeologists found a pixie dish, a horn product for storing rouge and powder, decorated with circles and concentric lines, as well as an ancient red lacquer plate that was broken in ancient times, which the experts managed to almost completely restore.

Earlier, MP Yevhenia Kravchuk said that the first suspicion of a Russian archaeologist for a crime against Ukrainian cultural heritage in Crimea had finally been drawn up.

"Everyone knows how Russia destroys, destroys and steals cultural heritage sites from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Illegal archaeological excavations in Crimea are part of this criminal activity," the MP said.

She added that all the facts of such illegal excavations are properly documented by Ukrainian services within the framework of separate criminal proceedings. So far, it has been established that only one archaeological heritage site, in the period of 2014-2019, has suffered losses in the amount of more than UAH 200 million.

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