Several hundred archaeological finds discovered on Khortytsia after destruction of Kakhovka HPP

[Judi Lynn]

Ukrainska Pravda
Wed, August 16, 2023 at 4:12 AM CDT·2 min read


Several hundred new archaeological pieces were found on the territory of the Khortytsia National Reserve. They were discovered due to a sharp drop in the water level on the island's coastline, which occurred after the Russians blew up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP).

This is the first time in 70 years that parts of the territory that were under the waters of Dnipro have been discovered, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine reports. Therefore, the reserve's staff inspects Khortytsia every day and conducts raids in emergency areas to preserve the monuments they find after the water level dropped.

"The coastline of Khortytsia Island is rich in historical and archaeological monuments, but some of them are in disrepair and require urgent rescue and preventive work," the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy noted.

In total, several hundred archaeological pieces made of metal, ceramics and wood, as well as more than a thousand fragments of ceramic products, were discovered during this period. The finds include ceramics dating from the Eneolithic period (6000-5000 BC) to the 19th century; flint hunting tools; metal coins; mediaeval bottles and glass bombs.

More:
https://news.yahoo.com/several-hundred-archaeological-finds-discovered-091224098.html

[2naSalit]

1. Wow!

I hope they can protect that stuff and those places.

[Warpy]

2. I read an article some months ago quoting elderly Ukrainian people

who remember the construction of that dam, how people in the towns and villages were given three days to pack up and get out as the dam neared completion. They didn't regard that project with any fondness, at all.

Some of the things they've found in the area are less benign that potsherds and coins, they've found WWII helmets with the skulls still inside them, there must have been a lot of shallow graves in the area that was flooded.

One farmer has already started to reclaim the exposed land, https://eng.obozrevatel.com/section-war/news-ukrainians-will-not-be-broken-at-the-bottom-of-the-kakhovka-reservoir-near-nikopol-planted-potatoes-video-24-07-2023.html

I imagine his crop will be enormous, fertilized by dead fish and with abundant water still under the surface.