In Zaporizhia, the archaeologists found ancient artifacts

The staff of the National reserve “Khortytsya” went on an archaeological expedition to Kherson region.

During the expedition, the archaeologists made several dives in the swamps of the Dnieper near Kherson.

The expedition went to the location of the legendary Oleshye, Slavic settlement of 10-13 centuries, which was burned during the invasion of the Tatar-Mongol. Catch the underwater excavations at the site of the ancient city became Slavic pot 9-11 St and a few wooden boards on the site of the wreck. Age boards have been unable to determine. A well-preserved pot handed over to the Kherson Museum.

As reported in Facebook the Deputy of the city Council and a member of the expedition Vyacheslav Zaitsev, reserve staff conducted an aerial survey of the fortress of Tyahynka. In this place during the battle were burned Galera in 1492, the Turks complained about this to the Lithuanians, the first mentioning of Cossacks.

In Tyahynka stone castle was built by Duke Vytautas in 1398. A city with a huge castle became a transit point for merchant caravans, and collected the customs fee. But after the capture by the Turks in the late 15th century, the fortress is empty. In the nineteenth century, local residents ThinkI took away its ancient stones for the construction of the village, and the island is still visible, overgrown with steppe vegetation trees and hills of rubble.

The ruins of the fortress were filmed during the expedition with the help of a drone with a height of 100 meters. As a result, the experts will receive a three-dimensional model of the monument, according to the head of the expedition Dmitry Kobalia.