Siberia harbors amazing artifacts for scientists

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The development of Siberia began at the turn of the 16th – 17th centuries, when the Siberian Khanate was annexed to Russia and the first cities were founded - Tyumen, Tobolsk, Berezov, Surgut, Tara, Obdorsk (Salekhard). But until now the Siberian land hides a lot of mysteries. Before you are mysterious findings that puzzled scientists.

In prehistoric times, there were several dogs per settlement, but the remains of 115 dogs were found in the town of Ust-Poluy. Scientists suggest that they were used not only for hunting and movement, but also for sacrifices. This is confirmed by a burial found in the same place - 15 dog skulls with the same cuts.

An island of ruins on Lake Tere-Khol was discovered in 1981. This complex is more than 1300 years old, it is well fortified and could serve as a fortress, but historians still cannot figure out who and why built it in the middle of the lake, far from all trade routes. The architecture is reminiscent of the palaces of the Tang Dynasty and the monasteries of the same era.

In 1997, not far from Salekhard, in the Zeleny Yar necropolis, two graves were discovered - an adult and a 6-month-old child - whose bodies were girded with copper rings. The finds are approximately 1,300 years old, but the gender remains a mystery.

In 2016, on a remote island, entire layers of earth began to swell and explode, after the explosions, craters and craters with a diameter of up to 30 m remained. Presumably, this is methane. And the main danger is that up to 7000 similar convex areas were found on the Yamal and Gydyn peninsulas.

A family of Old Believers fled to Siberia from Stalin's repressions and took refuge in the taiga so well that they did not even notice the Great Patriotic War. Discovered in 1978, when an aerial reconnaissance was carried out near the borders with Mongolia. Today only Agafya survived, but at 73 she still prefers to live in the wilderness of the taiga.

These buckles were accidentally found in the 1970s during field work. The finds are approximately 2000 years old. At that time, the cult of dragons had not yet finally formed in China, which means that the peoples inhabiting Siberia had their own mythology.