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In Georgia, during excavations, archaeologists have made a unique find - the oldest vessel with a liquid. After research, experts found out that the container contains the purest water, which has lain in the ground for about 1200 years. The find was made on the territory of the city of Kvareli in the ruins of an ancient temple.
In particular, archaeologists have established that there are no bacteria in the liquid, and it is suitable for drinking. The water did not change color or taste. Nodar Bakhtadze, the leader of the expedition, said that the vessel did not contain rainwater, but it was collected from a certain source. Currently, the vessel with water has been mothballed.
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVERED AN ANCIENT HYDRAULIC SYSTEM IN CHINA:
Promotional video:
From these photographs, I do not see any dam. One thing is visible, the object (if it was) was self-buried in the clay.
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Nerevsky excavation site in Veliky Novgorod. 1953:
The archaeologists themselves admit that one of the features of the Novgorod cultural layer is the amazing preservation of organic matter, especially wooden structures.
The decks were laid one by one, when the lower one went into the ground and it was no longer possible to use it - this is the official explanation. Judging by the safety of the tree and the amount of flooring, they fired quickly (or did they regularly fill them with dust from above?).
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Comment by photorav:
In Kiev on the street. Andrey Ivanov (now Butyshev lane) numbers 18/29, 23, 19, 13, 11, on Levandovskiy street number 5/2, 12 … There are a dozen more such houses. With the "recessed" first floors, basements all childhood climbed there, everyone tried to crawl deeper, "puffs" and walled up passages were visible. And they always wondered - why, how, why they were built like that. On many houses, at the ends of the masonry, the years of construction 1900 and the end of the 1800s are marked
And try to explain it to me by wind, cultural layer or flood! This is the very top of the Pechersk mountain:-)
On the newly named Levandovskaya street at number 7 there is a kindergarten, in my childhood there was a cardboard and paper mill, a very decent size, almost the size of a stadium. All buildings of the "factory" buildings had a roof starting from one and a half to two / three meters from the ground, the workshops into which we climbed and dragged sticks from rolls of paper, for the "baker":-), were about a hockey field with a vault height of 7 meters (I think I'm understating). The floors surprised us, in some places massive stone slabs peeped through the "modern" covering. There were piled-up, sometimes welded doors into their "basements" never happened to get there:-) Walls, brickwork about a meter thick, bath floors.
During the restructuring, they built everything that was possible in Pechersk, but they did not dare to build anything larger than a two-storey kindergarten on the territory of the factory.)))
It will go down in the direction of the Dnieper to Askold's Tomb, where in the 90s they began to dig. Places historically used, passable, dug a pavement at a depth of at least a meter, then again buried and asphalted. How could the flood sediment stay on these slopes / hills? How could they "cultivate" this way there, these were not bazaar areas?;-)
Another fact is interesting, there are the same old houses in the lower Pechersk, but that's why they are "sunk" into the ground to the same depth? If the top is so "flooded / silted", then these should be on the third floor …
At the excavation site under the fence of the Oktyabrskaya Hospital, on the lower territory on Basseinaya Street, they dug up a brick house with three window openings in length, completely filled up, only there is no roof. They also quickly leveled everything, I have never seen archaeologists there.
In general, the story is a muddy thing … and it depends on the bearer)))))
Yes, also, the Petrovsky powder magazine, to the right of the entrance to the World War II memorial, a decent "shed", on the edge of the slope, measures 7-10 in height and about 20-30 in length, I think it was filled with clay, very thoroughly, from the head of the embankment to the front ridge of the “roof” it was three meters …
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Disappeared Tyumen:
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At least in all cities of the former Russian Empire, all buildings are covered with clay almost up to the second floor. It happened 200 years ago. I took a photo of the filled-in Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (the tops of the first-floor windows can be seen as semi-basement ones) and in Photoshop I cut out a strip of windows on the third floor and substituted it in place of the filled-in first. The building acquired its original proportional appearance, it became the way the unknown architect intended it.
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Excavated Rome
I bring to your attention the photographs taken in 1924-1932 during the construction of Via dei Fori Imperiali. For the construction of which the Velia hill and the Alexandrian quarter were dug, thereby exposing what had been hidden for centuries under the ground (some photos, others - according to the links in the sources)
Even whole statues were found in the ground.
Ancient track with a track.
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Archaeological research at the site of the 14th building of the Moscow Kremlin:
The western corner of the foundation of the Church of the Annunciation and St. Alexy Metropolitan of the Chudov Monastery.
White stone tombstones in the foundations of the Church of the Annunciation and St. Alexy Metropolitan of the Chudov Monastery. In the Luzhetsky monastery - the same.
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The synagogue in Dura Europos was discovered and uncovered during excavations led by M. I. Rostovtsev in 1932-1935.
The frescoes are well preserved in it. Due to the conservation of the premises in ancient times - the official opinion of historians: the synagogue was specially covered with sand and broken bricks by Roman soldiers in order to strengthen the defensive walls of the city.
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Pay attention to the date on the forged gate. This is England. But at this time, nothing could threaten or harm the abbey of this gate, and even more so simply destroy the abbey. There were clashes between the English and the Scots in the 17th century, and then quietly.
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Continued: Part 6