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Tom Metcalfe

1,600-year-old burials in Crimea hold gold and silver jewelry from 'rich women'

A close-up of gold jewelry with red jewels.

Archaeologists have unearthed gold and silver jewelry at an early-medieval burial ground near the city of Sevastopol in Crimea.

The new finds indicate that the burial ground — the Almalyk-dere necropolis on the Mangup plateau, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of Sevastopol — was for elite members of a society that spread across southwestern Crimea from the late fourth century until the sixth century.

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