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Amsterdam court has allowed to extend the time for collecting evidence in the case of Scythian gold, TASS reports. Now the deadlines are postponed until the end of October.
Earlier the court postponed the adoption of the final decision in the case of Scythian gold. The judges decided to study additional information regarding, in particular, the property rights of the parties. They gave the parties two months to provide the requested data. Until a final decision is made, Scythian gold must be kept in the Allard Pearson Museum, located in the Dutch capital.
According to Tatyana Umrikhina, who heads the East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve, work with lawyers continues to date. The court considers that additional information is required both from the Crimea and from Ukraine.
All documents requested by the court had previously been transferred to the Netherlands. Among them are evidence that historical rarities are found on Crimean soil.
The main part of the exhibits is objects found on the late Scythian Ust-Alminsky necropolis near the village of Peschanoye, Bakhchisarai district. The collection includes jewelry, dishes made of metal, clay and wood, utensils, fragments of military ammunition, weapons, tombstones and more.
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