The Romanian National History Museum in Bucharest recently opened a special exhibition, The Svesani Treasure: the Gold of the South Danube Dacians. It resumes the history museum cooperation in archaeology between Romania and its neighboring Bulgaria.
The Svestari Treasure, located in northeast Bulgaria, was discovered in November 2012 in the tumumuls necropolis of a fortified city, built in the 6th century BCE. We spoke about this collaboration with the manager of the history museum, Ernest Oberlander-Tarnoveanu:
“After a gap of 45 years, the Romanian National History Museum and the National Archaeology Institute and Museum in Sofia resumed their collaboration. This year in April, a grand exhibition was opened in Sofia, at the institute museum, on the weaponry of Thracian elites. On this occasion, the Romanian National History Museum and the Institute of Eco-Museal Studies in Tulcea were present with rich exhibitions with pieces from the princely tomb in A
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