MOSCOW – In one corner, the government of Ukraine. In the other, four museums on the disputed peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014.
The prize? A trove of precious Scythian gold and ceremonial daggers, helmets and amulets made by the fearsome horseback nomads who ruled parts of Ukraine and Russia from 600 B.C. to A.D. 300 and who, according to Herodotus, drank from the (sometimes gold-lined) skulls of their vanquished enemies.
