Bucharest, Mar 11 /Agerpres/ – Researchers from six countries will meet at the ‘I. C. Bratianu’ Museum Centre in Buzau for a colloquium where they will be discussing the mortuary practices of ancient communities from the 3rd-1st millennia BC and the categories of goods deposited for the deceased in tombs.

The Buzau County Museum, in collaboration with the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Studies (UISPP) and the ‘Vasile Parvan’ Institute of Archaeology in Bucharest, is organizing, between March 14-16, the International Colloquium on Funerary Archaeology with the theme ‘Mortuary Practices in Bronze and Iron Ages: Europe and the Northern Mediterranean.’

‘Now in its 22nd edition, this scientific event brings together renowned researchers from Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Republic of Moldova and Romania. Buzau thus becomes the city in Romania where the most numerous international colloquiums have taken place (2004, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2019, 2025) under the aegis of UISPP, the most prestigious professional organization of archaeologists worldwide, thus joining the elite of scientific centres that have hosted such events. The colloquium’s papers aim to answer a series of essential questions regarding the mortuary practices of ancient communities from the 3rd-1st millennia BC, as well as the categories of goods deposited for the deceased in tombs. At the same time, mortuary practices ‘offer us precious information both about the religious and magical beliefs of these peoples, as well as about the occupations and social status of the deceased within the communities in which they lived,’ the Buzau County Museum reports.

Representatives of the Buzau County Museum will present the funerary archaeological discoveries from Lipia, made in 2020 and 2021.

The official opening of the colloquium will take place on March 14.