The Gold of the Steppe-Rulers: the Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós (ca. 700 – 820 CE)

Falko Daim is a Visiting (Fund) Fellow in Comparative Antiquity, Medieval Studies, and the Humanities Council. From 2003 to 2018, he was director of the Römisch-Germanische Zentralmuseum in Mainz. Before 2003, he was Professor at the University of Vienna and held several visiting professorships at international universities, among them Ljubljana, Los Angeles, Bratislava, Xi’an, and Bukarest. An archaeologist concentrating on steppe peoples and nomadic societies of Eurasia, his work looks at the western end of their activities that interact with sedentary groups in Europe in economic, social, religious, and political transformation.