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Scythians rule in New York (10/22/00) |
 | | The artifacts are on loan from four museums in Ukraine: the National Museum of the History of Ukraine, the Museum of Historical Treasures and the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, as well as the State Historical Archaeological Preserve in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi. |
 | | Among the artifacts are a foot-high object, unearthed in 1990, covered with intricately intertwined animal combat scenes, that may have served as a finial, and a series of gold openwork plaques from a bow-and-arrow case, excavated in 1991, that depict winged dragons crafted in a blend of animal and Near Eastern styles. |
 | | An extraordinary gold cup from the fifth century B.C., found in the Bratoliubivskyi kurhan in the Kherson region in 1990, is decorated with horses, conveying the Scythians' love for these animals. |
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