Welcome to 600-year-old Whale Bone Alley, once so remote that only few knew about its secrets.
Welcome to Siberia’s answer to Stonehenge or the Pyramids
It???s here, at Siklyuk on the tiny Bearing Sea island of Yttygran, where Eskimos created a 14th century shine and sacred meeting place, made with giant bones. Welcome to 600-year-old Whale Bone Alley, a location once so remote that few outside this part of the world knew about its secrets.
When photographer Evgeniy Basov captured the beauty of giant bones towering high into the Siberia sky, he said they resembled the majesty of England???s Stonehenge. Learning more about their unusual layout, and the significance of their creation, he insisted they were even as important to the Russian Far East as the Pyramids. It???s little wonder.
To many the location appears nothing more than some eerie graveyard of the damned, a last resting place for the whale carcases of yesteryear ??? but that is where they would be wrong.
And just like these, more well-known, monuments Whale Bone Alley raises more questions than answers. Anyone who is not familiar with the history of the Eskimos will never believe it that Whale BoneAlley is made from whale jaws vertically pitched into the ground’.