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Ancient Burial Mound May Be Hidden on the Campus of Siberia’s Oldest University
- Tomsk State University researchers suggest a medieval burial mound may lie on the campus grove, dating to the 6th–9th centuries AD.
- Three spearheads found on campus in the 20th century are cited as evidence supporting warrior burials.
- Florinsky’s diaries describe a large earthen mound with a panoramic view of the Tom River floodplain.
- Historians note the mound is not mentioned in modern scientific literature or on the official archaeological map.
- Researchers plan to assess the feasibility of field research at the proposed mound location behind the university’s second academic building.
- The site is part of a campus already known for archaeological finds, including Neolithic tools and log-coffin burials.
- If confirmed, the mound could shed light on early medieval warrior burials in Western Siberia.
- The findings were published in Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta (Bulletin of Tomsk State University).
- The study draws on Florinsky’s diaries, which described a mound with a river view and nearby lake and marshland.
- The study suggests the mound may lie behind the university’s second academic building, near a promontory by the Tom River floodplain.
- If verified, the mound would add to Tomsk University's reputation for a long history of campus archaeology.
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