Makam Mamoth Akhirnya Ditemukan!

Find: Archaeology students study the remains of a mammoth discovered at an open pit coal mine east of Belgrade in Serbia where archaeologists say they have discovered a at least five of the giant animals

Para arkeolog menemukan ladang berisi fosil gajah purba atau mammoth di Serbia. Tak hanya satu, di lokasi ini setidaknya terdapat fosil lima gajah purba tersebut.Para arkeolog yakin hewan raksasa ini merupakan nenek moyang dari gajah modern dan hidup di Serbia puluhan ribu tahun silam.

Lokasi penemuan fosil mammoth ini berada di tambang batu bara Kostolac, di timur ibu kota Belgrade dan menjadi menjadi yang pertama di wilayah itu.

Miomir Korac dari Archeology Institute Serbia mengatakan, temuan ini memberi pandangan penting mengenai Balkan selama zaman es.

“Ada jutaan serpihan mammoth di dunia. Sayangnya, serpihan itu sangat jarang ada yang bisa diakses,” katanya seperti dikutip DailyMail.

Penemuan fosil mammoth ini diyakini mampu memberi informasi luar biasa mengenai seperti apa wilayah tersebut selama zaman es.

“Temuan ini sangat menarik karena tak biasanya ada banyak tulang di satu tempat,” ujar peneliti mammoth, Sanja Alaburic dari Museum of Natural History Serbia. [ikh]

Painstaking: Miomir Korac, left, the director of the Viminacium archaeological park, and fellow archaeologists, working yesterday on a mammoth tusk at the open pit coal mine in Serbia

 

Mammoth graveyard: Miomir Korac, left, climbing up part of the site where remains of at least five of the giant beasts that lived tens of thousands of years ago have been found

Rich find: Graves from the the Roman era have also been unearthed close to a spot where the remains of the woolly mammoths were found in Serbia

 

Care: The archaeologists are also putting lots of care into uncovering the Roman era graves they have uncovered while working on their excavations of the mammoths who died thousands of years earlier

 

Huge job: Serbian archaeologists have called on their colleagues in France and Germany are set to help uncover the bones in a dig which is expected to last at least six months

 

Past: The TV programme Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice Age showed how the huge beasts would have looked before they largely became extinct around 10,000 years ago