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A gold necklace of bee-women
Top image: Gold necklace from the North Tomb of the Oguz Kurgan, with its central female head, lotus dividers and suspended pendants. Source: After M. Yu. Treister, Drevnosti Bospora 31 (2026), via Arkeonews

A gold necklace of bee-women

Oguz Kurgan, Ukraine. about 2,300 years old. Greece and Rome. Debated. Free

The page does not prove that the tiny figures are bee-women.

Debated. One new study reads them as bee-women around an Amazon-like head, but older studies gave other names.

The necklace comes from the Oguz Kurgan, near Nyzhni Sirohozy, in the Kherson region of Ukraine. It is about 2,300 years old. It was found in the North Tomb of a noble woman. The necklace has 84 hollow gold beads, lotus-shaped dividers, flower shapes, and many tiny figures around a small female head.

It is still argued whether those figures are bee-women, sirens, or snake-legged goddesses.

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