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HydrolicKrane on February 27, 2026 2:47 pm It was discovered in a Royal Scythian Kurgan of [Solokha – Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solokha) The ‘Royal Scythia, Greece, Kyiv Rus’ book takes a close look at the comb and the barrow where it was found (just in case).
Chickenman452 on February 27, 2026 3:03 pm Wasn’t this something that the Russians stole from a Ukrainian museum earlier in the war?
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It was discovered in a Royal Scythian Kurgan of [Solokha – Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solokha)
The ‘Royal Scythia, Greece, Kyiv Rus’ book takes a close look at the comb and the barrow where it was found (just in case).
The skills of the people that made this. Wow.
Wasn’t this something that the Russians stole from a Ukrainian museum earlier in the war?
is this lost wax casting? gilded?