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Home for Vika
Friday, 10.07.2009.
11:12
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Vika, the oldest mammoth ever found in Europe, which was discovered at the beginning of June in the vicinity of archeological site Viminacium, will obtain its first improvised home today (July 10, 2009). The entrance fee will amount to 250 RSD, and all the money will be invested in construction of future Vika's museum.
There is a concrete ring around the mammoth, and it will be holding a wooden structure six meters high - total of 150 square meters, which will be installed today.
- The Ministry of Science, that is, Minister Đelić, has promised that we will get certain funds in order for Vika, probably the most important discovery of the century in Serbia, not to stay unprotected on a barren land, but we have not received anything yet, and the Ministry of Culture is still silent. We will try to collect part of the funds for construction of long-lasting facility from the tickets - Prof. Dr. Miomir Korać, the Director of archeological park "Vinimacium", explained.
Mammoth Vika is one of tropical, "southern" mammoths who moved from North Africa to Europe few million years ago. Vika was an old lady who was five meters long and weighed 10 tons. Old and sick, she got stuck in mud, fell on her knees and died. That is how archeologists found her in the vicinity of Kostolac (about 300 meters away from Viminacium) five million years later.
