An expedition of the Institute for the History of Material Culture (IIMK) of the Russian Academy of Sciences has discovered an agricultural settlement of the Bosporan Kingdom, dated to about the 4th century BC, on the site of the road being built to the b

The research has shown that one of the inhabitants of the ancient village was an official responsible for keeping account of agricultural produce.

"The archaeological excavations covered an area of almost 70,000 square metres, which made it possible to study in detail substantial parts of ancient residential, farming and burial complexes spanning a wide chronological range: from the late Archaic period to the late Middle Ages. Dating to the period of the Bosporan Kingdom on the northern Black Sea coast are residential and farm buildings, as well as burial structures. From the nature of the burials and the objects found in them, one can judge the level of prosperity and even, at times, the occupation of the inhabitants of the rural settlements that supplied food to the ancient poleis, Phanagoria among them," Sergey Solovyov, head of the IIMK RAS Antique Construction-Site Expedition, told TASS.

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