WOW! Two beautiful Hungarian sculptures thought to be lost have been found! – photo

Sculptures of two important leaders of the Hungarian tribes in the 9th century, Álmos and Előd, have been found recently. They were thought to have been lost, so there is a copy of them on the Fisherman’s Bastion in the Buda Castle.

The remnants of the two sculptures were found in the cellar of the former headquarters of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at 2 Dísz Square. Originally, Álmos and Előd were decorating the northern tower of the Fisherman’s Bastion. Furthermore, archaeologists found fragments of the building in the cellar, PestBuda reported. Among these, there is a unique basin made of red limestone and a lot of artworks of stonemasons.

Archaeologists of the Várkapitányság (the organisation that runs Buda Castle) have started to work in Dísz Square recently. Their goal is to clean the territory because the beautiful headquarters of the Hungarian Red Cross is going to be rebuilt.

Built originally as a headquarter for the Hungarian Red Cross following the plans of the Hauszmann Office, it was later the seat of two ministries between 1902 and 1947. However, since it was bombed during WWII, authorities decided to demolish it. 

As a part of the National Hauszmann Program, they started to explore the cellar system beneath the former building. Thanks to these, archaeologists were able to find the original sculptures of the two Hungarian tribal leaders, Álmos and Előd.