6,000 year old vessel found in Russian lake
Published 12 March, 2007, 02:02
Local divers have found a vessel and a spoon, which are over 6,000 years old, on the bottom of the Uvildi lake in Russia's Ural region. The discoveries are the most valuable items at the Southern Ural museum of regional studies.
Specialists say the items were part of a burial ceremony held on water, thousands of years ago. Locals believed the departed would want to use their personal things after death. They used to put the deceased on something like a boat and load it with valuable things that he owned during his lifetime.Two divers were awarded a special diploma and a grand thanks from all local archeologists.“That's really interesting. The water is crystal clear. You can find a lot of things on the bottom of it,” says one of the divers, Alexander Sedyakin, from Russia's Chelyabinsk Region.discuss it
