Artifact with a dark past. Leonov N.I., Makeev A.V.

The valuable figurine found during excavations in the Urals was stolen. Trying to prevent the theft, the watchman was killed. Colonels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Gurov and Kryachko interrogate interested persons, including world-famous archaeologists. Each of them has its own version of what happened: from the blasphemous theft of a unique artifact to the initial falsification of the discovery itself.

as an independent consultant, detectives attract an experienced specialist of the old scientific school. The recognition of an elderly professor plunged the operatives into a real shock...