What you don’t “stumble over” during tunnel excavations: during work on the new U2/U5 route, part of a mammoth tusk was recently discovered in the center of Vienna – at a depth of 13 metres.
“The find was made during the excavations at the corner of Ebendorferstrasse and Liebiggasse,” Wiener Linien spokesperson Sebastian Raho confirms to krone.at. The animal relic was found at a depth of 13 meters. Its length, although it is only part of the tooth, is considerable: 73 centimeters.
Ice Age find on display at the museum
The tusk was immediately taken to the Natural History Museum, “where it was cleaned and preserved by taxidermists from the Geological-Paleontological Department,” says Raho. During a visit to the museum, the relic can also be admired by interested parties.
The find from the “Ice Age” is not entirely surprising: According to Wiener Linien, about 12,000 years ago on the site of the Rathauspark, which is very close to the find site, there was a green steppe that was transformed into summer herbs by the grasses and grasses that grew there were popular with mammoths.
Source: Krone
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