A Dacian gold bracelet from the first century BC was stolen and found at the end of last year, and has now been put in its rightful place, on display at the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest.
It was brought back today, April 17, as part of the “Historical Treasury” exhibition.
The spiral-shaped, gold bracelet was discovered in the the archaeological site of Sarmizegetusa Regia – it is the fourth of its kind to be found in the Dacian fortresses in the Orăștie Mountains, and consequently looted.
It was illegally trafficked, but was recovered and brought home.
“The story of these gold bracelets has stirred the imagination of many looters who have ravaged the Dacian fortresses, and we hope the legislation will be improved so that this no longer continues, because such looting is extremely harmful – it deprives us of the most important part: their contextual story, which can only be reconstructed through archaeological research, not through police or prosecutor investigations,” said Ovidiu Ţentea, interim director of the museum.
