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A Bear-Depicted Bronze Plaque from Early Medieval Altai Reveals a Forgotten Cultural Frontier
For more than thirteen centuries, it lay unnoticed in the soil along a quiet Siberian river. When it resurfaced, the object was small—a bronze plaque no wider than a hand—but its implications reach far beyond its size. Unearthed at the Chumysh-Perekat burial ground in southern Siberia’s Altai region, the plaque depicts three bears arranged in…
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Lost Relics of Saint Hilarion Found Beneath Suzdal’s Cathedral After 90 Years
The long-lost remains of Saint Hilarion, Metropolitan of Suzdal and Yuriev, have been rediscovered beneath the Nativity Cathedral of the Suzdal Kremlin, nearly ninety years after they were removed during Soviet-era anti-religious campaigns.Archaeologists and anthropologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) confirmed through osteological analysis that the bones indeed…