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The study and publication of the finds from Chingul Kurgan is a collaborative effort
of specialists in archaeology, history, and the history of art.
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The original excavation, conducted in 1981 near the village of Zamozhne in the
Zaporizhska oblast of southern Ukraine, uncovered the grave of a nomadic khan,
the leader of the Turkic steppe people known in Slavic sources as the Polovtsy,
as Qipchaks in Islamic sources, and as Cumans in Greek and Latin texts.
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Supported by a Collaborative Research Grant from the
Getty Foundation, our research
is geared towards understanding how this impressive array of works of art arrived in
the possession of a steppe nomad and how they might have been used and interpreted
as expressions of power of a leader on the borders between the Mediterranean and
Eurasian worlds.
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