Row over ancient tombs gets to the heart of modern Ukraine – The Times

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The 5,000-year-old skeleton of a man with the fingers of a pianist has sparked a nationwide controversy in Ukraine over heritage, antisemitism and national identity.

The body was the last of 27 sets of human remains discovered this summer by Ukrainian archaeologists in a dig south of the city of Dnipro. They had been exhuming an ancient burial mound threatened by the encroachment of a housing development.

He is a mystery, explained Professor Dmytro Teslenko, 49, head archaeologist for the region, of the ancient man whose discovery has prompted a modern-day furore that began when activists denounced the dig as an assault on Ukrainian heritage.

At the base of a burial mound excavated in Ukraine was the 5,000-year-old skeleton of a mystery man in his thirties with the fingers of a pianist

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The burial mound was originally made just for him, probably between 3,400-3,200BC, Teslenko continued. Yet he had not the build

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