Ukrainian archeologists found ancient city with big houses and mosques of times of the Golden Horde on a coast of the river Konki in the south of the country in Zaporozhye region.
According to scientists the find testifies that here, in forty kilometers from the regional center, once blossomed Muslim city of times of the Golden Horde - garden-city - with minarets, baths and mosques, and also challenges statements of historians that up to Cossack times Zaporozhye was a wild field with nomads. Archeologists are convinced: the ancient Mongol-Tatar settlement stood on the Big Silky Way.
Historians found mentions about this ancient city while working in Zaporozhye archives above ancient maps of the XVII century from different countries. In written sources of Russian empire it was called "Konskie vody" ("Horse waters"), on the Arabian maps it is designated as the "Dead city", and Italians nicknamed the settlement "Seven mosques" (most likely, the name stemmed from the number of the temples).
Zaporozhye pupils helped scientists to dig out this ancient city. In spite of the fact that a lot from the Golden-Horde cities is plundered, archeologists hope that the earth saved from barbarians the most valuable things, and the world will be surprised with their find.
On the materials of "Arraid" newspaper
