The memorial tourist complex “Scythian camp” consists of 3 real mounds over 2 thousand years old, their age can be compared with the famous Egyptian pyramids, when the history of civilized humanity was just beginning its way. Also on the territory of the museum there are 8 reconstructed barrows. The largest mound is called the “Visual Grave”, the name comes from the word “peering” (watching, watching), at different times it was used as an observation point for the surrounding territory.
In addition, in the northwestern part of the complex there is a lapidary paved with a mystical stone circle with stone guardians of history placed along its contours around the Zaporozhye region in the form of Cimmerian, Scythian and Polovtsian sculptures, traveling pillars, gravestones and household items (troughs , grain grinders, harmonics). The open-air museum of stone works, which contains artifacts, is an area of almost 1 hectare across the area with stone witnesses, exhibits of the past.
The memorial tourist complex “Scythian camp” consists of 3 real mounds over 2 thousand years old, their age can be compared with the famous Egyptian pyramids, when the history of civilized humanity was just beginning its way. Also on the territory of the museum there are 8 reconstructed barrows. The largest mound is called the “Visual Grave”, the name comes from the word “peering” (watching, watching), at different times it was used as an observation point for the surrounding territory.
In addition, in the northwestern part of the complex there is a lapidary paved with a mystical stone circle with stone guardians of history placed along its contours around the Zaporozhye region in the form of Cimmerian, Scythian and Polovtsian sculptures, traveling pillars, gravestones and household items (troughs , grain grinders, harmonics). The open-air museum of stone works, which contains artifacts, is an area of almost 1 hectare across the area with stone witnesses, exhibits of the past.
By bus: next through the island to the Khortitsky district to the stop "TSIMET", then walk 3 km to the south. Or personal transport.
The complex was established and opened in 2005. The largest of the remaining Hortitsky kurgans is the “Visual Grave”, a copy of the sculpture of a Scythian warrior is installed on the mound. At the beginning of the twentieth century. on about. Khortytsya, there were 129 mounds. With 28 burial grounds that once belonged to the “Visual Grave” kurgan group, only 3 survived today. In 2005, archaeologists reconstructed 8 more kurgans, among which one was investigated and restored, two were restored at the site of the destroyed ones, and the rest were mounds-kurgans and the sanctuary of Ares. In the open-air museum, many stone artifacts have been collected: millstones (symbol of wealth and fertility), an ice rink or harman (a device for threshing grain), stupas (for pounding grain), statues, anthropomorphic steles, etc.
The complex was established and opened in 2005. The largest of the remaining Hortitsky kurgans is the “Visual Grave”, a copy of the sculpture of a Scythian warrior is installed on the mound. At the beginning of the twentieth century. on about. Khortytsya, there were 129 mounds. With 28 burial grounds that once belonged to the “Visual Grave” kurgan group, only 3 survived today. In 2005, archaeologists reconstructed 8 more kurgans, among which one was investigated and restored, two were restored at the site of the destroyed ones, and the rest were mounds-kurgans and the sanctuary of Ares. In the open-air museum, many stone artifacts have been collected: millstones (symbol of wealth and fertility), an ice rink or harman (a device for threshing grain), stupas (for pounding grain), statues, anthropomorphic steles, etc.