Археологические находки в Курганской области. Савин.

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mysterious history. Forty years ago archaeologists found an

ancient monument on the territory of the Kurgan region.

It was not a simple settlement but a real Observatory similar

to the world-famous British Stonehenge!

Spotlight on Russia turns its

attention to Savin

In the early 80s a villager of Belozerskoye Vasily Babushkin visited the forbidden place Savin and found ceramics and stone products there. The findings were transferred to the regional lore Museum. The first digging in 1982-1985 has shown that this place was a religious holy place. The structure consisted of two contiguous circles with a diameter of 14 and 16 meters. The circles were outlined by ditches 1, 5 meters wide.

In the ditches, around the circles and in the center there were more than 100 holes in which as scientists have suggested once there were columns. There were also bonfires and pits filled with animal bones, shards and stone tools. Astronomical calculations were carried out. It turned out that the pillars are tied to specific solar and lunar landmarks. This proved that Savin is an ancient Observatory and its age is 4500 years! But Russian scientists were in no hurry to recognize this sensational news. And only 12 years later the Institute of Archaeology and Kurgan University organized a new expedition to Savin.

The result of their work sounded like a bolt from the blue: Savin is the Observatory of Stone Age on the territory of modern Russia!

• Why did scientists decide that Savin was an observatory?

• Why is it important for us to find such places as Savin?

• Why is Savin called the Stonehenge of Kurgan?

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