Iron Age. Europe without borders. The first millennium BC Exhibition catalog

This catalog is dedicated to the next exhibition taking place in the State Hermitage and the State Historical Museum. This is the third exhibition dedicated to the topic "Europe without borders". The first two - the "era of the Merovingian" and "Bronze Age" - took place in 2007 and 2013-2014 with great success, arousing considerable interest among everyone who is interested in the oldest past of Europe. The task of the new exhibition is to show on archaeological material elements of culture, economy, everyday and ceremonial life of Europeans mainly in the 1st millennium BC. In the written territory from the Atlantic Ocean in the West to the Ural Mountains in the East. Thus, the exhibition fills the chronological gap between the monuments of the Bronze Age and the Early Middle Ages. It was the era of iron with its technical, ideological and spiritual discoveries and achievements that laid a strong foundation of modern European culture. The exhibition and in the catalog demonstrate exhibits of three Russian museums - the State Hermitage, the State Historical Museum, and the Plane named after A.S. Pushkin, as well as the German Museum of the Preistory and the ancient history of the state museums of Berlin. The publication introduces the reader to the antiquities of Celtic culture, the worldly famous treasures of the Scythian mounds, antique monuments, well -known archaeological treasures and numismatic finds. The catalog includes articles by leading Russian and German scientists on many Iron Ages. The text of the catalog is published in two languages ​​- Russian and German. The catalog is intended for both specialists - archaeologists, historians and ethnographers, as well as a wide circle of interested readers