An egg or a stone? – mysterious exhibit of Irshava Museum (PHOTOS)

It seems to be a smooth polished stone which looks exactly like an egg. But what is it: an egg or a stone?

On the eve of 2017, the Irshava Regional History and Local Lore Museum received an unusual discovery, which remains the subject of numerous debates in social networks and in the media, – the "Archeology Portal of Transcarpathia" informs.

It was found in the vicinity of the Bilky settlement (VІІІ-VІІ centuries BC) in 2015. It seems to be a smooth polished stone which looks exactly like an egg. But what is it: an egg or a stone? While they are looking for the answer, the unusual item was put under glass in the Irshava Local Lore Museum.

This stone egg was accidentally found by children in the vicinity of the Bilky settlement. At first glance, it is nothing extraordinary – an egg-shaped smoothly polished stone. But, on the site of the discovery, there once was a big fortress, which scientists date back to VIII-VII centuries BC, that is, "early Iron Age". Also, archaeologists found in the settlement a burial mound of the Kushtanovytsia culture, dating from the VI-IV centuries B.C.