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Old tradition of verifying time by cannon shooting has been renewed in Sevastopol
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Ukrainian students of history department discovered ruins of a XIV-th century castle in Zakarpattya
History News
On the territory of Zakarpattya, a group of Ukrainian history department students, have made numerous findings which prove that there was a castle construction of XIV-th century in the area. The students were doing their training excavations under the guidance of their teacher, when they discovered unique objects of the old culture and lifestyle. Among the exhibits, there are parts of armory of that time, musket’s bullets, copper plates, coins of the time of Hungarian Prince Ferdinand I, and ceramics of XVI-th century.
Almost at the same time, ruins of one more castle were found on the hill Boduliv in Zakarpattya region. Archaeologists assume that this fortress had never served to protect people though, because it was ruined right after being erected.
For several years now, the Ukrainian part of the Western Carpathians has been actively explored by numerous archaeological researches. Another unique monument of archeology is Ezupil. During the excavation works there, bones of mammoth, horn-nose, north deer and other unique animals were found, which became prays of hunters hundreds of thousands years ago.