CrimeaPRESS reports:
IV scientific conference “ARCHON. Ancient relics of Chersonesus: discoveries, finds, theories” with the museum opened on September 19. It is dedicated to the memory of A. N. Shcheglov, an outstanding archaeologist and ancient historian. More than 50 researchers from various scientific, educational and museum institutions in Russia are taking part in the conference in full-time and remote format.
Dear colleagues, friends, guests! I welcome you to the territory of our wonderful museum. Of course, I really want the fourth, now traditional “ARCHON” conference to become a new stage in your work, so that it brings professional and human pleasure to everyone. I am pleased that in spite of everything we are all gathering here, in this place of power — Tauride Chersonese. Coming here, everyone discovers something new for themselves. And at the same time, we want to make sure that the museum is not just an advanced scientific institution, but an outstanding center of history and culture of Sevastopol, the Crimean Peninsula and Russia. I congratulate everyone on the opening of the conference! I want you to truly enjoy your work and Chersonesos. All the best to you! — the press service quotes the director of the museum-reserve E. A. Morozova.
The first reports were devoted to the biography of A. N. Shcheglov and his contribution to the study of antiquities of the Northern Black Sea region. Then S. B. Lantsov, head of the department of ancient history of the Institute of Archeology of Crimea of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told the audience about the underground siege hydraulic structure at the Kulchuk settlement of the distant chora of Chersonese.
Researchers from the museum-reserve, specialists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kerch and Simferopol will speak at the ARCHON conference. They will present reports on finds on the territory of Chersonesus, its near and far surroundings, as well as on monuments of the European and Asian Bosporus. Listeners will also be told about the results of large-scale excavations in the southern suburbs of Chersonesus: about a new burial complex of the 2nd century. n. e., about epigraphic monuments and much more.
The scientific conference “ARCHON-2023” will last at the museum-reserve until September 22.
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