One of the main arguments of deniers of invasion of Batyi to Russia is absence of archaeological finds of the Mongolian war. Mol nothing was found, so the Mongols were not.
However, since this version appeared in the early 1990s, many finds have been found, and museums and annals of Eurasia are full of Mongol artifacts.
Another find has been unearthed in a Transnistrian village by archaeological scientists. This is reported by archaeologists of the Transnistrian State University, headed by Dr. Vitaly Sinica.
Author of the photo: Serghei Simonenco
On the outskirts of the village Glinoe of Slobozia district was discovered the burial of a Mongolian thousandaire, a noble commander of the Mongolian tumen. The male skeleton of Asian type, found by archaeologists, contains a skull of Mongoloid race with a wide flat face and nose.
The Mongolian commander himself is a small height of 1.6 meters in length, in his hands he held a huge saber of Hunnish type almost in his own height — one meter thirty centimeters. That tells us about the outstanding physical strength of the Mongol warrior.
In addition to the saber, remains of plate leather armor, a quiver made of tree bark, a dagger and typically Mongolian, wide iron arrowheads were found. Nearby they found the grave and horse of a Mongol warrior, a practice that was ubiquitous throughout the Mongol Empire.
An iron arrowhead of the diamond-shaped (Mongolian) type was found.
Radiocarbon analysis in the laboratory and attributes of the burial, dug according to the Eastern canons, allowed scientists to assume that the noble Mongol was buried at the end of the 13th century. And the excavated grave is evidence of the bloody internecine warfare in the Golden Horde that occurred at that time.
You remember that after the end of the Western campaign all conquered lands of the West and Russia became part of the ulus Juchi, and the first khan became Batu. But immediately after his accession the struggle of descendants of Genghis Khan for an imperial throne of the Mongolian empire began, which resulted in strengthening of independence of ulus Dzhuchi.
The Golden Horde arose, with nominal subordination to Karakorum and the emperor, actually an independent state of Mongol-Tatars. It soon adopted Islam and was rapidly moving away from Mongol culture. At the end of the 13th century, one of the viceroys of the Golden Horde, named Nogai, ruled as its vassal over the western lands from the Dnieper River to Hungary.
Batuya’s Golden Horde consisted of vassal uluses of Batuya’s kin and his commanders.
Taking advantage of the unfolding war for the Golden Horde throne between the descendants of Batyi, Nogai broke away from the Horde. It began to mint the coin, behaved as khan, concluding contracts with Bulgaria and Byzantium.
Emperor Michael Palaeologus even gave Nogai in a wife the daughter. However, the new Khan of the Golden Horde named Tokhta did not like the separatism of the Nogai Horde, even though Nogai supported him and helped him seize the throne of Sarai. This conflict led to a war between the two.
Two armies of Mongol-Tatars came together in 1300 in a grand battle in the place Kukanlyk, which is believed to be somewhere on the territory of Moldavia. Nogai lost and died, Tokhta returned Nogai lands under his control.
At retreat of the broken Nogai horde probably this commander has died of wounds
Archeologists believe that the found Mongol commander was a participant of this battle on the side of Nogai. Since he was buried in the bare steppe, outside the usual collective burials of the Mongol aristocracy, buried in the rush of fleeing Nogai troops. Perhaps, the warrior died of wounds on the way of retreat.