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Some facts, perhaps, will once again overlap with the theme of the flood, because it is difficult to explain them only by being covered with soil.
Photo from a book published in 1911.
Modern view of the building.
This observation and find from by_enigma:
Wikipedia writes - The governor's house was built as a civilian object, but it also had a defense purpose. The walls, the thickness of which reached 2 m, had loopholes …
Promotional video:
Our ancestors were hardly suicides to make windows - loopholes at ground level into which you can jump at a run. Most likely, in my opinion, the north side of the house became an obstacle to the cataclysm and collected a decent amount of soil “walled up” the entire first floor. As a result, we have a three-storey building from the south with a height of 19 meters and a two-storey one from the north. But the most interesting thing for a hundred years, practically nothing has changed.
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Excavations in Smolensk
Archaeological excavations in Smolensk: nine centuries and six meters deep into history.
Archaeologist's comment:
Before the scientists started digging by hand, they had to remove about one and a half meters of ballast. “Now we have gone to a depth of 5 meters 80 centimeters from the level of the modern surface,” continues Pronin. - We dug sequentially through the layers, carrying out stripping and fixation of everything found. On average, one layer is about 20 centimeters. And this is how we gradually explore the cultural layers, starting from the 18th century. Now we have reached the 12th century, presumably the first half of it. In total, during the excavation, scientists have collected a collection of mass-produced inventory, which has more than 50,000 items, and individual finds - more than 2,500. These are knives, locks, neck crosses, spinning wheels, jewelry, rings. The most unexpected and valuable find was the seal of the first Bishop of Smolensk Ignatius, dated to the beginning of the 13th century. This seal was the second find of its kind made in the North-East region.
Another site with excavations on the Dnieper embankment in Smolensk:
First half of the 18th century. At this point, archaeologists stumbled upon a wooden flooring of chipped oak planks. As scientists assume, it led from the east of the Pyatnitsky Gate and turned towards the fortress wall.
XVI century. At this mark, the remains of a large non-residential building were discovered, in which a wooden well is located. Scientists suggest that this building was a barn or warehouse (a room or room for short-term storage of goods).
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Mysteries of Kazan. Tower Syuyumbike
In 1839, an album by the French architect André Durand was published in Paris, who, at the invitation of A. N. Demidov, visited Russia and created an album of drawings of the Russian Empire. Including three drawings from Kazan.
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Mohenjodaro, India
The city and buildings are covered with clay. It can be seen that many were not excavated to the floor level. The clay remained inside the walls. Or is this city built on a hill? But in any case, these remnants of the walls were buried under layers of clay soil.
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The Moscow Mayor's Office has released the first photos from the location of the secret room in the center of Moscow According to archaeologists, the room helped the defenders of Moscow in the 16th century to eavesdrop on the enemy on the other side of the fortress.
The found room is located at the base of the Kitaygorodskaya wall. “Archaeologists in one of the trenches opposite the Church of St. John the Theologian under the Elm saw a small room with vaulted walls. It is built into the Kitaygorodskaya wall at the foundation level.
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Buried ancient cities of the Black Sea region
Fanagoria:
Tiritaka:
Mirmeki:
Hermonassa:
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TOMSK, 2.03.2017. The builders discovered a previously unknown basement floor during repairs in one of the old buildings of the Siberian State Medical University (SSMU). Thanks to the renovation of the upper basement floor, the university received additional premises with a total area of 1400 square meters.
According to the press service of the university, the basement is located seven meters underground.
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Tomsk State University. Reconstruction?
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Supervision from Sergey Ignatenko. A possible reason for the absence of ancient forests in Siberia - fires? Which could be provoked by hurricane winds.
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Moscow 1952-54 From the archives of the American spy Martin Manhof
Sadovaya-Sukhareskaya st. Moscow.
Part of the Garden Ring. All supposedly cellars are very strange. Do you see the entrance to the second floor of the building in the center of the photo? If we assume that the basement is the first floor covered with clay.
Pay attention to the Kremlin covered with soil. Did they hide the snow shoveled to the wall.
Manezhnaya Square. The building on the left is a completely filled ground floor in the background, but open closer to the square.
Now there is no such thing, everything has been dug up to the white stone base of the wall.
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A porthole for lighting basements is a common element of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There were many such houses:
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Overgrown St. Petersburg …
1900th.
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Mongolian scientists have discovered the burial of a woman, about 1100 years old.
Comment of the person who sent the news: according to the sensations from personal belongings, 150-200 years ago, a woman fell asleep with a horse. Most likely at night, set up camp, maybe even put up a tent. Something happened and she was buried alive like a mammoth. I don't believe in fairy tales about the burial of the dead with a horse and personal things like a knife.
A steel knife - as if it was buried in the ground yesterday. The organic matter dried out, but did not decompose. Apparently, the ground that filled the horse with the woman was dry, and maybe hot. Boiled off moisture and turned bodies into mummies. Otherwise, the worms and bacteria ate it all. Yes, this is all a couple of hundred years old. Don't you think the clothes are burnt? The horse's eyes are open. Was she buried alive in the opinion of archaeologists?
Horse with full harness and saddle. The horse's eyes are open.
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In these clay layers, a figurine was found, as they like to call - Siberian Venus.
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How Rome was dug up:
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Map from 1450. Buildings are being dug up.
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News 2015 During excavations in the center of Moscow, archaeologists discovered the most ancient street. In the center of the capital, during excavations at the site of the demolished hotel "Russia", archaeologists have discovered the oldest street in the Moscow posad. Its name is Velikaya, and it stretched along the river from the walls of the Kremlin to the pier located in the eastern part of Zaryadye.
Commentary from A. Kungurov:
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Ancient city discovered in Iran after sandstorm
The ruins of a mysterious city, covering an area of about 5,000 square meters, were found in Iran after the last sandstorm on April 4, 2017. According to preliminary analyzes, the city was founded in 661 AD.
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Palmyra before excavations and restorations
They dug up and set up the columns.
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On the shore of Tura, builders dug up an ancient boat
At the construction site of the second bridge along Melnikayte Street, workers unearthed the hull of a wooden boat, padded with iron. Because the boat is upholstered with iron, then the dating was immediately made - the beginning or even the middle of the 20th century.
Continuation: "Part 16"