Settlements in Kostroma and Egyptian Pyramids Appeared at the Same Time

Archeologists have unearthed a historical sensation: the first settlements in Kostroma were contemporary with Egyptian pyramids.

Settlements of early people that lived here six thousand years ago have been found on the area of the St. Hypatius Monastery in Kostroma. It is the oldest settlement discovered in the region.

St. Hypatius Monastery is first mentioned in the chronicles in 1432. However, a monastery legend says that it was founded much earlier, in the early 14th century by the Tatar murza Chet, christened Zachary.

The present diggings had a definite aim – to examine the base of the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, which had been destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the 1930s. Now it is going to be restored. But during the excavations it turned out that the church had been raised on the foundation of an older church, namely the Life-Giving Trinity Church.

One meter deeper archeologists discovered a sensational find dated back to the 4th millennium B.C. The found crockery pieces are probably remains of the dishes where the early people had kept their food.

Another important find under the base of the Most Holy Mother of God is the family sepulchre of the Kostroma boyars Godunovs. All the 32 white gravestones of the 16-17th cc are in a bad condition.

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