Solokha

Coordinates: 47°25′N 34°11′E / 47.417°N 34.183°E / 47.417; 34.183 The Solokha (Солоха) kurgan is on the left bank of the Dnepr, 18 km from Velikaya Znamenka (opposite Nikopol). It has a height of 19 m and a diameter of about 100 m, dating to the early 4th century BC. It contained two royal Scythian tombs, the central tomb had been robbed already in antiquity, but still contained the remains of a female ruler and two horses in rich attire, while the side tomb was found intact by the 1912–13 campaign by Russian archaeologist N. I. Veselovski. The tomb is notable because it confirmed the historicity of an account of Herodotus.