10000 City of the Dead

The only way. Serpentine and sparsely populated areas. Fortunately, not evening. For many centuries the ancient curse successfully sparavlyalos with the protection of this site. Even now, suddenly shrunken battery failures cameras and indigestion are not surprising visitors. Disturb the souls of the dead in our plans are not included. We only look with one eye and leave. My companion drops Canon. The camera works, but makes only absolutely black frames. As if we were in the crypt. And there we are. This is the "City of the Dead».
22 photos via Sergey Mukhammedov





North Ossetia, village Dargavs. Wikipedia mysteriously laconic. Reliable information on the largest necropolis of the Caucasus no one else.



On the mountainside in a beautiful place are 96 crypts. Do not just stand there, and still keep something for which to create. They are filled with the dead.



Come on, since you are not afraid, everything is open. Just remember - hence no one has ever returned alive. At least according to legend. The locals here and not go.



And if in the first, closest to the road, you will see only the crypt decayed skull and bones, the more you will meet a mummy.



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Prior to the Soviet-era city of the dead, no one was interested. The first studies began sixties. In one of the crypts archaeologists counted 95 skulls.



Legends tell that all the bodies have been like living here. And I even believe it - Museum of the City of clothes of the dead are remarkably well preserved.



Structures created a special ventilation and microclimate favorably affect the natural mummification. However, earlier crypts closed wooden shield with a latch, so now look dead already not the best way. So, as we used to see in horror movies.



Each crypt belonged to the same family and a very expensive cost. The extraordinary strength of the solution wherein the eggs, sour cream, milk and lime, let them have survived to our time. A hewn corner stone treated in sheep. From numerous residential buildings in the area did not become a trace - they were cheap. Now only the tower and crypts ...



Underground and semi-underground. Gable, hipped and flat roofs. Here in one place shows the entire evolution sklepostroeniya. Some buildings have two or even three tiers. When the free space inside to do but to make additional Highlanders flooring. They broke through the walls of the grooves and inserted wooden beams, which are stacked boards for new dead.



During the plague, here patient care. In the crypt they waited for death, and relatives brought them food and water



But the most amazing thing in the City of the Dead - boats. In many tombs lie the remains of a wooden boats



None of the neighboring nations have not used this method of burial. Perhaps this is some ancient cult preserved Ossetians almost until recently. Or is there some connection ancient myths about the river Styx to the city of the dead.



A local resident told the legend. Many, many years ago, this village horsemen captured in the campaign for a Woman, equal in beauty which was not.



Everyone wanted to marry her and everyone was ready to kill the one who gets in his way.



And the men went to the elders, so they gathered a council and make a wise decision who gets the girl.



But even at the sight of the elders beauty eyes shone.



They began to show their prowess, day and night, circling around the unearthly beauty, all gone mad. Three days of thinking what to do, so to anything and do not come



Release - horsemen her leave. Someone give - will cut. And not to kill because of it each other, and decided that she should die.



And as soon as the life force left the beautiful girl, unknown curse struck the inhabitants.



The meat was fall off the bones in humans. They tried to escape in nearby villages, but the punishment overtook them.

The dead began to dig into the ground, but did not take their land and throw bones to the surface. Then the bones become obkladyvat stones. So there was a City of the Dead.