Gold of Attila - King of the Huns

At Sotheby's auction are exhibited gold jewelry Huns. It is impossible to say unequivocally that this necklace with garnets more than 1500 years old belonged personally to the great king of the Huns Attila, but their belonging to the Huns has been proven very accurately. It is possible that these jewelry belonged to some kind of Hun leader.

Gold of the Huns is very rare; not so many decorations of this people have survived to this day. Three burials of the Huns with decorations and various artifacts were discovered on the territory of Russia, but most of the decorations have significant damage and loss.

The necklace exhibited at Sotheby's, despite its age of one and a half thousand years, is well preserved. It is difficult to imagine what path these decorations went through, how many hands they went through, and whom they decorated.

In the 19th century, the necklace became known to archaeologists as part of the collection of a noble Kazakhstani family. Jewelry went through many examinations in order to make sure of their authenticity, and now the treasures of the Huns are exhibited at Sotheby's, where anyone can buy them - the main thing is that there is money.

These jewelry are of great cultural and historical value, but the auction did not value them high, apparently due to the fact that the art of barbarians cannot be expensive. The starting price for Attila's gold is very modest - 200-300 thousand pounds, although it may rise in the course of trading.

This fact once again shows the imbalance of values, when real rarity and antiquity made of gold, 1500 years old, can cost less than dubious paintings by living artists!

If I had the opportunity to buy these jewelry, sometime later one of the Russian museums would receive them as a gift, because in any case, you cannot take gold with you to another world.