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Scythian Burial Chamber Unearthed in Moldova Yields Knife, Censer and Rare Stone Altar

Archaeologists from Moldova's National Archaeological Agency have unearthed a third-century-BC Scythian tomb at the Gura Bacului necropolis in the east of the country, made up of an access shaft, a corridor and a burial chamber. Rescue excavation finds include ceramic vessels, arrowheads, beads, a sheathed knife, a censer of a rare type that helped date the grave, and a piece of worked stone interpreted as a small altar — adding fresh detail to scholars' picture of the Scythian world on the steppe corridor between Ukraine and the lower Danube.