The skull of a 350,000-year-old mammoth will be exhibited for the first time at the Palace of Culture in Iași, after a complete restoration process.

The Palace of Culture in Iași will host, starting Saturday, the exhibition of the skull of a mammoth approximately 350,000 years old, belonging to the species Mammuthus trogontherii. This is the only skull of this species preserved in Romania and has been carefully restored by paleontologist Bogdan Haiduc and restoration experts Ligia Teodor and Mihai Spiridon.

Discovered in the years 1956-1957 in the Holboca area, the skull was identified by Professor Neculai Zaharia and has become a reference element in the specialized literature due to its uniqueness. The steppe mammoth, which lived during the middle Pleistocene, is considered an ancestor of the woolly mammoth. The exhibit will be integrated into the future exhibition of the History Museum, highlighting the evolution of species over 350,000 years. The manager of the Palace of Culture, Andrei Apreotesei, invites the public to admire this valuable paleontological piece.