Mammoth jaw and ancient weapons: what archaeologists found at the bottom of the Kakhovka reservoir (photo)
Yes, archaeologists have already found several artifacts of the Ukrainian Cossacks. After all, in the territory, which in the 1950s flooded the waters of the Kakhovka reservoir, at one time there were five Zaporozhye Sich-Tomakivskaya, Bazavlutsk, Mykytyn, Chortomlytska and Nova or Podpilnenskaya Sich. Archaeologists have already managed to find and identify firearms of that period. Potentially in soil thickness can be found amazing things, historians recognize.
It can be weapons, Cossack boats and more ancient vessels, jewelry, ceramics, ancient settlements and burial grounds. Historian and archaeologist Gennady Toschev, who has been excavating the ancient burial ground Mamai-Gora for more than 30 years, says that, on the one hand, the water under which all these places were certainly harmful to many monuments. On the other hand, somewhat could even be preserved.
In addition, archaeologists and historians also found the bones of a prehistoric animal at the bottom of the virtually destroyed reservoir. It can be a jaw mammoth of the Paleolithic mammoth. Keeps the Kakhovka reservoir and artifacts of the Second World War. Archaeologists come across weapons of those times, German helmets and the remains of the military who participated in the battles.
We will remind, a little earlier to Ukrainians showed what the destroyed Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station has now. The satellite images taken by the US company shows that the Kakhovka reservoir ceased to exist, and the Dnieper remained in its old line. On June 19, Ukrainians were shown to be happening to the Kakhovsky reservoir near the ZPP. The pictures taken by the American company Planet Labs, show that the water level in the reservoir in the ZPE and Nikopol area remains critically low.