May
29
/ 2021
Scythians and other warring cultures and the archaeological remnants of their history are under attack by developers in Ukraine looking to construct new luxury country homes. There are two roadblocks in their quest for unrestricted profiteering. The first comes in the form of 4,000-5,500-year-old burial mounds, almost 100,000 in number and scattered across the countryside, which are only protected by a very thin topsoil. “It has a very thin topsoil, literally 10 cm. This is very little and it is causing it to swell, deteriorate, etc. This is why it was decided to investigate it", says Dmitry Teslenko, head of the Dnieper archaeological expedition of the Ukrainian Archaeological Guard Service. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"86598","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"407","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] A unique Ukrainian burial mound found during roadwork in
