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4 unusual facts about Helmet of Coţofeneşti


Helmet of Coţofeneşti

These, however, are surely direct, if run-down, descendants of the sphinxes on a gold beaker from Amlash .

A replica of the helmet appeared in the 1967 historical movie Dacii (The Dacians) by Sergiu Nicolaescu, though it took place at least 500 years after the period to which the helmet has been dated.

In 1929, a child named Traian Simion uncovered the helmet by chance on the territory of the village of Poiana Coţofeneşti (now called Poiana Vărbilău), Prahova County, Romania, in the location called "Vârful Fundăturii".

Vărbilău

A gold ceremonial helm (5th century BC) was discovered at Poiana-Coţofeneşti in 1929.



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