Saturday, 3 October 2026

Excavation of a rubbish fill on a reservoir site sheds light on Chersonesos in the 9th to 11th centuries

A rectangular pit with limestone block walls on the site of an ancient reservoir, with a city and bay in the distance.

Here, until the 9th century, there was a city reservoir. Later it was filled in with rubbish. And it was precisely the excavation of this heap of refuse that shed light on the supposedly dark centuries of Chersonesos in the 9th to 11th centuries: the city, it turns out, was living and developing all the while

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