The Hermitage intends to conduct 5-6 archaeological expeditions in Crimea this year

Archaeologists of the State Hermitage are planning to conduct 5 or 6 archaeological expeditions on the territory of Crimea this year. This was announced at a press conference in TASS executive secretary of the Hermitage archaeological commission, head of the archeology sector of the Northern Black Sea region of the Ancient World department of the State Hermitage, head of the Myrmek ​​expedition Alexander Butyagin.

For the Hermitage, Crimea is one of the priority regions, where archaeologists collaborating with the Hermitage have been actively working since pre-revolutionary times. This year it is planned to work on 5-6 archaeological expeditions— he said.

According to Butyagin, one of the priority areas for research is Kerch, and work will also continue in Chersonesus, in the Sudak region and other parts of the peninsula.

At the site of Akra, its above-ground part will be explored; at the site of Myrmekiy, we continue research in all areas, exploring a large building from Roman times. In the Feodosia region, it is planned to continue the study of a rural estate, work is planned in Sudak, and the territory of the city of Solkhat will continue to be explored. If circumstances permit, we will try to continue work on the Kalos Limen settlement in Chernomorskoye, — he explained.

As the General Director of the Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, noted at a press conference, for the Hermitage, research in Crimea is a powerful scientific tradition of studying the civilizations that existed there.

This is a very big job of collecting and exhibiting things, and if at first things largely ended up in the Hermitage, in the museums of St. Petersburg and Moscow, then for a very long time all the things remain in Crimea and enrich the wonderful Crimean museums— he said.

Piotrovsky paid special attention to the work in Chersonesos. According to him, these are “grand-scale excavations,” and from their example one can see the solution to many problems, including rescue archeology — excavations in places where the construction of new objects is planned, as well as the creation of a park, public relations, solving restoration problems, issues transfer of monuments that are located below sea level.

As Sergei Solovyov, a researcher at the Department of Conservation Archeology of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said at a press conference, excavations in the southern suburb of Chersonesus, where a historical and archaeological park is being created, lasted almost 3 years, 85 thousand square meters of the monument were explored, more than 6 .5 million finds, 3 thousand archaeological sites were discovered, for the study of which the latest scientific methods and technologies were used.

source: TASS