As the aggressor-controlled “media” are forced to admit, a unique monument is being destroyed in the steppe Crimea due to supposedly “agrarian work”, but in fact – due to the next invaders’s “fortifications” – a “stone map” of Neolithic period petroglyphs, discovered in 1977 and located near the Simferopol-Armyansk highway in the steppe part of the peninsula.
As scientists pointed out before the occupation of Crimea, the Kara-Khodja monument most likely reflects the cosmic ideas of people of that time, it is a kind of calendar and sanctuary, it was previously studied by the archaeological expedition of Kharkov State University.
The monument began to be seriously studied already in independent Ukraine since 1999, then it got its name, in honor of the nearby Crimean Tatar village destroyed in 1944.
“The composition resembles a map of the starry sky and the paths of distant luminaries across the sky. Obviously, we have before us a unique steppe sanctuary associated with certain calendar astronomical representations and an agricultural and pastoral cult”, archaeologists wrote earlier.
The images covered about 60 square meters of limestone slab, these are furrows, holes, single and double lines, arcs, circles and combinations thereof. The current systematic destruction of a unique monument by the Russian occupiers takes place in conditions when the aggressor did not enter this object, clearly incomprehensible to the primitive “singers of the Russian world”, into the “registries of cultural heritage objects”.
