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| Archaeologists have found the first birch bark letters from the 17th century in the Far East in Yakutsk |
| 2024-07-23 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Archaeologists have discovered birch bark letters from the 17th century in Yakutsk — this is the first such find in the Far East. The head of Yakutia, Aisen Nikolaev, reported this on July 22in a Telegram channel. "During the archaeological excavations in Yakutsk, at the intersection of Kalandarishvili Street and Mark Zhirkov Lane, unique birch bark letters were discovered! The first unique find in the Far East was discovered by a student from the city of Kirov, Vitaly Tatarinov," he wrote. The head of the republic said that nine charters were found, which were written in ink in a cursive script from the 17th century. So far, we have managed to read the first fragment, which talks about collecting yasak. According to Wikipedia, Yasak or yasaq, sometimes iasak, is a Turkic word for "tribute" that was used in Imperial Russia to designate fur tribute exacted from the indigenous peoples of Siberia. According to Nikolaev, archaeologists assume that the charters belong to the archive of the voivodeship chancery, which was lost as a result of the fire of 1700. He also noted that the main task now is to preserve the charters in their original form. The head of the region emphasized that this is a sensational find, which has enormous scientific and cultural value not only of republican but also federal significance. As reported by the Regnum news agency, archaeologists have discovered unique porcelain artifacts from the 19th century in the area of ​​4th Krutitsky Lane in Moscow. According to the head of the Moscow City Heritage Department, Aleksey Yemelyanov, a Meissen porcelain saucer and a lid from Dr. Schweikert's lipstick jar are fragments of goods popular among wealthy citizens of that time. In June, scientists from Sevastopol State University, together with colleagues from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Abkhaz State Museum, discovered fragments of structures off the coast of Abkhazia that presumably date back to the medieval period. |
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