1,000-year-old 'snake amulet' featuring a Christian saint and 'Medusa' discovered in Russia
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“Archaeologists in northwestern Russia unearthed a 1,000-year-old two-sided pendant depicting both a snake-slaying saint and a snake-haired woman.”
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