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Red figured sytula. Middle IV c. B.C.
Amphora. VI c. B.C.

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'RIDDLES OF UKRAINE: SURPRISING TRIPOL'SKAYA CULTURE'.
An exhibition is organized the Royal museum of Ontario (Toronto).
Opening of exhibition - 29.11.2008
Term of exhibition - on November, 29, 2008 - on March, 22, 2009
Amount of the presented exhibits - 81.
          In collections of the Odessa archaeological museum of collection of monuments of Tripol'ya occupy a considerable place.
          Tripol'e is not only to one of the brightest but also of most long duration cultures of ancient Evropy. A tripol'skaya culture existed about two millenniums during all of eneolita to beginning of epoch of bronze inclusive. From the beginning of V thousand B.C. practically all of forest-steppe bar of Ukrainian Pravoberezh'ya was populated the tribes of tripol'skoy culture which got the name from with.Триполье on Kievschine, opened and investigational V.V.Khvoyko at the end of XIX v. It is set long-term researches, that it is component part of large tripol'sko-kukutenskoy community, the monuments of which are known on territory of Romania, Moldova and Ukraine.
ISLAND SNAKE

A hall of museum of island is Snake

          Island Snake is located at north-western part of the Black sea in the distance a 35 km from a mouth Danube. His area an about 20 hectare, and most height above a level exterminating 40 m. Island is characterized an unique geological origin is the unique tectonic raising at the Black seaside. A place is important Snake occupies as a hydrobiological preserve and am also one of centers of migration of birds in Evrope. But, for the first turn Snake is major ?стор?ко-археолог?чним by the object of long-ago of Ukraine. The most first writing testifying to the island appear at the end of the VII item B.C. Ancient hellenes at new unknown land development in the north to Pontu (so they named the Black sea), opened a be single island in the middle of shoreless aquatic space. They gave him will name Levke, that means "white", "clear", "shining" and equated him with the location of Akhilla - glorious hero of Trojan war from a poem Homer "Iliada". An island is remembered and in works of many authors - Pindara, Alkeya, Evripida, Aristotle, Strabona, Pliniya but other Sometimes he was named also the island of Akhilla, Akhillovoy earth, Macaronis - "beatific".