The images you'll see as you scroll down to the current text are all part of the story telling in my novel, Realms of Gold:Ritual to Romance.


Bianca Caldwell, pen name, Bianca Fiore, is a writer for an art magazine. In each of her monthly stories she describes an object used in ancient ritual.

Treasures of the Sarmatians: Horse Harness Phalera

 Horse Harness Phalera ( a piece of horse harness, frequently decorated in antiquity)




Date of interment: last quarter of the 1st century A.D.
Gold, bronze, sardonyx, turquoise, glass, garnet
Rostov Region, south-east vicinity of Azov
Dachi burial site. Barrow No. 1, Crypt 1
Azov Museum of History, Archaeology and Paleontology