EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
Sep 30, 2021
3 minutes
EXHIBITION
Gold of the Great Steppe
FREE ENTRY Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, until 30 January, steppe-gold.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
The Saka culture flourished around 2,500 years ago in modern-day Kazakhstan, but outside of Central Asia the Saka remain relatively unknown. A major exhibition hopes to change that by bringing, for the first time, hundreds of artefacts to the UK from three burial complexes.
The Saka people lived in the dry grassy plains of the Eurasian Steppe, and filled the landscape with burial mounds for their
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