MKI GOV HUNGARY : SACRIFICIAL CAULDRAN : ANCIENT HUNS It's a rare, thousand year old cauldron, and it's also about diplomatic relations.
Excerpt: When an excavation area is designated, there's no way of knowing what the burial sites are hiding. But usually the chances of finding such a wonderful find are slim. Indeed, after the fall of the Hun Empire, the Chinese emperors supported and sometimes even financed the looting of Hun graves. On the one hand, they were after the gold and treasures, and on the other, they were seeking to eliminate scared sites that had played an important role in the identity of the people living there. The imprint of this today is that almost all the Hun tombs are in plundered state. That is why we had great luck with the excavation of the Asian Hun cemetery at Ar Gunti. Here we found unmolested graves, and in one of them the amazing artefact we have just unpacked.
- Let me add,"the Ambassador resumes, "that these graves are easy to find and rob because the tombs are still visible on the surface, in the form of stone and earth piles that have been standing for thousands, sometimes two thousand years.
- Such burials were very common among the steppe peoples. From the Scythians to the Cumans it was customary that the more important the ruler, the more soil was brought to the tomb from distant parts of the empire, and the higher the mound was under which the ruler could rest in eternal sleep. We have such tombs in the area of Százhalombatta, for example. That's why the name of the town translates into English as 'hundred mounds' explained the Director-General.
