Fitz Lunchtime Talk: Gold of the Great Steppe, an introduction

Wed 29 September 2021

Join Rebecca Roberts, Curator of Gold of the Great Steppe, for an online talk introducing the exhibition, its themes and highlight objects.

The Saka culture of Central Asia, flourishing 2,500 years ago, is largely unknown outside Kazakhstan. The exhibition will present artefacts from the extraordinary burial mounds of the Saka people of East Kazakhstan. Recent excavations and analyses led by archaeologists from Kazakhstan have helped us understand much better how the Saka lived and travelled, the things they made and what they believed in. They have revealed a distinctive, advanced society, which is still being uncovered as modern archaeological methods enable scholars and scientists to find and analyse not only burial mounds but also the remnants of settlements.

Please note this event will take place online, via Zoom

Cost: £5, free for under 18s & Students