There are several medieval tombs near the remote village of Dargavs in Russia. The area is called the 'City of the Dead'. This ancient cemetery has 99 tombs with sloping roofs. Each has a window. And hundreds of corpses in each house. Some bodies are well preserved.
The flesh of these bodies is still attached to the bones. There are more than 10,000 bodies in these graveyards. Many of the dead have been buried with clothes and belongings.
It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. However, historians are gradually revealing its history.
The bones of the corpse in the tomb.
In the sixteenth century, remote agricultural land in southern Russia began to be used as a cemetery. However, the origin of this dead city is still unclear. In the 13th century, when the region was threatened by the Mongols and Tatars (a tribe belonging to the Turkic tribe), locals living in a 16-kilometer-long valley in the Caucasus Mountains built similar structures to store corpses high above the plains.
The pyramid-shaped roof of the tomb.
Another theory is that the city of death was built in the Indo-Iranian tradition by immigrant Sarmeshians who settled permanently in southern Russia.
The story of the city of the dead may be linked to another history of this region. That is, plague epidemics appeared in the region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Plague-infected people were then kept in the house to avoid infection.
Visitors are amazed at the beauty of this..
Many visitors come to this 1.5-hectare cemetery to see this well-preserved medieval structure. Historian Luidmila Gabova thinks there are other reasons why visitors come here. He said, ‘Visitors are amazed at the beauty of this place. At the same time, they feel the peace with the eternal fear of death. '