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The 21 beads form part of a bronze hoard found in 2019 within a forested area close to the town of Nisporeni. Alongside the beads, the hoard included numerous bronze ornaments (2 Röschitz-Sanislău-type fibulae, 7 necklaces, 12 rings, 22 tubes, 23 bracelets, and approximately 80 appliqués), one coral bead and a pendant made from a wild animal's tooth. At present, the amber beads are preserved in the collections of the Muzeul Național de Istorie a Moldovei, while the remainder of the hoard is in the possession of a private collector.
The hoard was discovered accidentally in a pit about 50 cm deep. The objects in this hoard are of Western origin, with known parallels in archaeological complexes from Poland, Hungary, Serbia, and Slovakia, and, to a lesser extent, in Romania. The presence of this bronze hoard on the territory of the Republic of Moldova illustrates the cultural dynamics of the region during the Early Iron Age and a fundamental shift in the vector of cultural influences from east to west.

The amber bead strand comprises 16 whole beads and five fragmentary ones. They have an elongated biconical shape and vary in size. The beads are brown-reddish in color; their lengths range from 1.1 to 3.1 cm, widths from 0.6 to 1.4 cm, thicknesses from 0.6 to 1.1 cm, and the perforation diameter ranges between 0.2 and 0.3 cm.
Amber beads appear in several bronze hoards dated to the Late Bronze Age in the eastern half of Slovakia and in Transdanubian Hungary. Parallels are also known from the Cioclovina Cave in Romania. With the onset of the Iron Age, amber items disappear from the Carpathian Basin for approximately 300 years, reappearing alongside the arrival of Scythian elements.
The bronze hoard discovered at Nisporeni is dated to the HaA2-HaB1-2 interval (1050/1000 - 800/750 B.C.).

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"Corruption and War"

9 – 29 December, 2022

On December 9, the International Anti-Corruption Day, at the National Museum of History of Moldova was inaugurated the "Corruption and War" exhibition, organized by Ziarul de Gardă.

The exhibition frames more than 100 exhibits from the national and international press of the year 2022, which bring visitors in front of some direct questions: Is corruption a cause of war? Could fighting corruption prevent wars? Can there be peace without integrity and transparency?

The exhibition is divided into several areas: the Corridor of National Corruption, the Circle of War, the Moldovan-Russian Octopus and the Light Tunnel. The exhibits represent press articles, documents, images, photographs, diagrams, collages executed by ZdG, but also by other newsrooms from Moldova and the world.

Alina Radu, director of Ziarul de Gardă: "We fight all year with this scourge and we, at Ziarul de Gardă, have been fighting for 18 years, and it is very important to stop one of these days to draw some lines, make some totals and we understand what remains to be done. Today I feel very good because people came to see what is happening with corruption and war in the Republic of Moldova and in the world, and we believe that any information exposed to the public helps to solve the problems of our society. The exhibition is a tribute to investigative journalism, but it is also something that covers the information gap that exists in society, because if we look, we see that not all people still understand how corruption leads to war".

The launch event was attended by dozens of guests who were curious to learn more about corruption in the Republic of Moldova. At the same time, the ambassadors of Great Britain, the USA and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Minister of Culture, Sergiu Prodan, the deputy director of the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office were present.

The "Corruption and War" exhibition can be visited by the general public at the National Museum of History of Moldova between December 9 and 29, 2022.

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Exhibit of the Month Amber beads from a bronze hoard discovered near the town of Nisporeni

"Corruption and War"

9 – 29 December, 2022

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