Discover 400,000 years of mammoth tusks in Siberia

A Siberian resident (Russia) while digging a vegetable garden in his home garden excavated the ancient mammoth tusks dating back about 400,000 years.

According to The Siberian Times newspaper, a resident of Oy village in Yakutia while digging a garden of potatoes and cabbage found this particular pair of ivory.

Pair of ivory is very impressive - (Photo: Siberiantimes).

This pair of ivory is from a steppe mammoth , an extinct ancient elephant, 270cm long and about half a meter in diameter at the base!

This prairie mammoth existed before the long-haired mammoth, which was very popular in the Yakutia region, also known as the Sakha Republic.

The remnants of the long-haired mammoth at Yakutia are still quite common, but traces of rare and rare prairie mammoths are much longer, possibly 400,000 years ago.

The base of the ivory is half a meter in diameter - (Photo: Siberiantimes).

Local historian Prokopiy Nagovitsyn was a member of the survey team who came to learn about archaeological discoveries which he said were "extremely special".

He said: "For easy reasons we will not provide the exact location and name of the person who discovered the archaeological evidence. We were invited to assess the incident. Paleontologists group. are also on their way to further research ".

The details will soon be announced.

But Prokopiy Nagovitsyn said: "This is the tusks of a steppe mammoth, so this archaeological discovery dates back about 400,000 years."

New length of ivory detected - (Photo: Siberiantimes).

In 2015, it was found an intact skeleton of prairie mammoths in Yakutia's Nizhny Bestyakh region.