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Multi-periodSite Name: Chersonesus
Country: Ukraine
NOTE: This site is 2.259 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sevastopol
Latitude: 44.611667N  Longitude: 33.493333E
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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Chersonesus
Chersonesus submitted by durhamnature : Necklace from the site, from "Iranians and Greeks in Southern Russia" via archive.org Site in Ukraine (Vote or comment on this photo)
Greek colony on the Crimea Peninsula. The site is on the outskirts of the modern city of Sevastopol, and is a popular tourist attraction. There is a museum on site.

Note: As a result of the annexation of Crimea by Russia, the city is currently a subject of territorial dispute between Ukraine, which considers Sevastopol as a city with special status, and Russia, which considers it a federal city within the Crimean Federal District.
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Re: Chersonesus by XIII on Tuesday, 26 July 2022
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Some news articles about the cultural destruction by Russia in Crimea:

Russia seeks to destroy Crimea’s archaeological heritage: report
28.06.2022

Russian occupation authorities aim to destroy the archaeological legacy of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, including the tombs of the ancient Greek colony of Chersonesus, a Polish website has reported.

In the city of Sevastopol, construction work is under way in a part of the Chersonesus cemetery on the so-called Virgin Hill, Poland’s dziennik.pl website reported, citing Ukraine’s Ukrinform news agency.

The resting place of some of the first Christian martyrs has been turned into a building site, dziennik.pl reported. It added that heavy construction equipment has already damaged several archaeological sites, reducing them to a heap of rocks.

An eyewitness, heritage conservationist Anatoly Tumanov, said: “On June 23, I saw an excavator destroy historical heritage,” as cited by dziennik.pl.

The excavator had cut one of the well-maintained Chersonesus tombs in two, dziennik.pl reported.

“The contractor has no right whatsoever to start building work without first carrying out archaeological research,” Tumanov said.

Chersonesus was an ancient Greek colony, dziennik.pl said, adding that in 988, Vladimir the Great was baptised there, which represented a symbolic baptism of Kievan Rus.

The colony’s remains are in today’s Sevastopol. In 2013, UNESCO listed Chersonesus as a World Heritage site, dziennik.pl reported.

The devastation of the Chersonesus tombs is not the first time the Russian occupation authorities have destroyed historical sites in the Crimean Peninsula, according to dziennik.pl.

The website cited lawyer Daryna Pidhorna as saying that “hundreds of thousands of artefacts have been irrevocably destroyed during the construction of the Taurida route.”

Meanwhile, according to UNESCO, Russia has destroyed over 150 cultural sites since invading Ukraine in February, including more than 70 shrines, dziennik.pl reported.

Source: http://www.polskieradio.pl


New illegal excavations at Chersonese in occupied Crimea as Russia tries to rewrite history
07.07.2020

The Russian occupation authorities have resumed illegal excavations at Tauric Chersonese near Sevastopol, the site of an ancient city which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. There are strong concerns about the physical damage Russia is doing to this priceless site in the absence of international monitoring. The circumstances around the excavations suggest also that they are linked with Moscow’s efforts to stake out its supposed historical right to Crimea.

According to the Russian-loyal website New Sevastopol, the excavations have been initiated by the Russian Patriarchate’s Cultural Committee with financial support from a foundation entitled ‘My History’. They are aimed, the head of the foundation’s board, Ivan Esin says, “at creating a map of archaeological zones which will be turned into museum exhibits and will form part of a project also including a museum of ancient Byzantine culture and a museum of Christianity”. The excavations began earlier in the year but were suspended because of the pandemic.

Back in March, the same site reported “the most substantial archaeological find over recent decades”, saying that it had been made on the territory of military units adjacent to Chersonese. The ‘My History’ Foundation claimed to have found a cave city and hundreds of rare or unique artefacts. On 18 March, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian defence ministry would be “freeing a part of its land” to extend the reserve

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Re: Chersonesus by durhamnature on Monday, 07 January 2013
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The open air museum at the site is at-

1 Drevniya Steet, Sevastopol.

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