Archaeologists in Taimyr have found the most "northern" chessboard

Archaeologists in Taimyr have found the most "northern" chessboard
Archaeologists in Taimyr have found the most "northern" chessboard
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The chessboard, presumably the northernmost find in the world, was found by archaeologists during the excavation of a Russian winter hut on the Taimyr Peninsula in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. It belongs to the 17th-18th centuries, and the place of discovery indicates that the chessboard was used in some kind of ceremony, Danil Lysenko, director of Krasnoyarsk Geoarcheology, told TASS.

"Work was carried out in Makarov Bay - this is the Pyasinsky Bay of the Kara Sea, here a winter quarters of the second half of the 17th - early 18th centuries is being excavated. construction of a winter house, "Lysenko said.

Makarov Bay is located in the region of 73 degrees north latitude. This is the northern tip of the Taimyr Peninsula and probably.

According to Lysenko, the board is made in the style of the Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory people. It is a solid piece of wood lined with cells with a sharp object. Similar items were found during excavations of Mangazeya, the first Russian city in the Arctic. "Chess is a traditional gambling game that was actively used in Mangazeya, Berezovo; it is recorded on all polar monuments of Russians," the agency's source added.

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