Saturday, 3 October 2026

Natural cave found beneath 9th-century housing in Chersonesos, linked by a corridor to a sanctuary

A dark opening in a broken stone surface beside a wall of pale limestone at an excavation site.

A natural cave has been found beneath the ninth-century residential quarter at Chersonesos, reached by a corridor from a sanctuary of the fifth to fourth century BC. The ancient Chersonesites, like many peoples of antiquity, endowed caves with sacred meaning

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