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But more of the city’s fate is set to be revealed after researchers from the Kulikovskoye Pole (Kulikovo Field) museum uncovered what they think is the wreckage of the lost community.
Lyubov Kotkova, a spokeswoman for the museum, told RIA Novosti more about the find.
“Our archaeologists believe that around the town of Chekalin (in the Suvorov district of Tula Region, more than 200 km south of Moscow) they have found the legendary city,” she said.
An assortment of artefacts gives clues about the daily lives of residents of Divyagorsk: fragments of knives, tools and jewelry have been uncovered, along with the graves of seven people.
The dead appear to be Christians – they were laid to rest with their hands crossed on their chests – and are thought to have died when the city was stormed during the war.
Explorations will continue on the site until mid-August, and further findings will be studied by experts from the museum.
Kulikovskoye Pole museum preserves the battleground of Kulikovo Field, where Dmitry Donskoi led Slavic forces to a vital victory over the occupying Tatars in 1380.
As well as preserving the battlefield and staging annual reconstructions of the combat, the museum also explores other historical sites in Tula Region.
However, the museum’s experts have yet to solve one of the most baffling puzzles of the Kulikovo battle: although up to 200,000 people are believed to have died in the fighting, no burial sites have been found near the battlefield.
Author: Andy Potts | Source: The Moscow News [August 08, 2011]