World history and culture: Exhibition “The Bronze Age. Europe without borders, Between the IV-th and early I-st Millennium BC” in Moscow

October 15, 2013 at the State Historical Museum (Moscow) opened the exhibition ““The Bronze Age. Europe without borders, Between the IV-th and early I-st Millennium BC”.

For the first time within one exhibition the museums of Russia and Germany demonstrate their unique collections telling about the birth and development of the primitive civilizations of Europe.

The advanced thinking, a new ideological picture of the primitive world, the expression of which is a masterpiece of art and craft is developing at this time.

The archaeological materials present wonderful works of ancient masters: sculptors, masons, painters, jewelers, potters, weavers, gunsmiths. These objects help to see the real events of European history and to show how transformed the life of peoples under the influence of revolutionary changes reflected the epochal events of the Bronze age, and the passage from the previous era of the Stone age to the Bronze age.

Among the unique exhibits there are gold pendants from Apostag in Hungary, gold and silver ornaments and jewelry from the Caucasus Maikop burial mound, first in Europe men's mask-skull from Poludnya burial ground in the Volga region, golden jewelry from the treasures of Troy in Anatolia, shamanistic «sacristy» from Galich treasure in Kostroma, ceremonial weaponry from Borodino treasure found near Odessa, a treasure of gold ornaments from Eberswalde involving 81 golden objects and weighing about 2.5 kg.