Mud house interior - Museum on Water in the Bay of Bones, Ohrid, Macedonia

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Museum on Water is an exceptional archaeological complex, which is one of a kind in the the southern coast of Gradiste Peninsula in the Bay of Bones, a pile-dwelling settlement has been erected, which in the past was spreading at a total surface of m2. Bay of the Bones is an authentic reconstruction of a part of the pile-dwelling settlement, dating back between 1200 and 700 BC. On the locality Plate Michov City was discovered a prehistoric pile settlement with time belonging to the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, and in the current research there were 6000 recorded remains of wooden piles into the waters of the lake bottom, at a depth of 3 to 5 meters that probably relied on common wooden platform on which functioned twenty prehistoric residential buildings, built also of wood.

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Size: 4608px × 3072px
Location: Gradiste Peninsula in the Bay of Bones, Ohrid, Macedonia
Photo credit: © Mihai Popa / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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