Who Covered The Ancient Cities Of The Black Sea Region? - Alternative View

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2024 Author: Keith Bush | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 14:01

On the territory of Crimea, Taman, Azov region, there are currently many ancient destroyed cities. Some of them are partially excavated, but it is likely that most are still hidden underground. Now new cities have been built on top. Therefore, excavations are not even possible everywhere. Because to carry them out, modern buildings would have to be demolished. And does it make sense to do this? Is it worth it, in other words?

According to the official version of history, these cities were founded by Greek settlers colonists. It is believed that the Greek cities were overpopulated, they lacked land and food. And therefore, landless Greek citizens, in search of their place in the sun, began to develop new territories. This is how it looks on the diagram:

Formation of Greek colonies in the 8th-6th centuries BC.

A closer look at the Kerch Peninsula:

Greek colonies of the Black Sea region.

Was it really so? If you think logically, it does not look entirely convincing. It turns out that one piece of land was densely populated, and around, for some unknown reason, exactly the same climatic conditions (or maybe more favorable?) Lands were empty and were just waiting for the moment when the Greeks would come and begin to develop them.

No, these lands were not empty. According to the official version of history, the Scythians lived in these places. Are they Slavs? They are also mugals or tartars, as Nicolaas Witsen claims in his book Northern and Eastern Tartary (17th century), referring to reliable sources of that time:

“Pliny, speaking of the Scythians - these are mugals, or tartars, - and about their country, writes (Book 4, ch. 12):“Pars mundi damnata a natura rerum, & densa mersa caligine”.

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What does it mean: "That part of the world that is cursed by nature and immersed in thick darkness."

The Mugals, like the Kalmaks, are what some believe are called Gog and Magog in the Bible. The Mugals call themselves Mongols and Munguls. They are from those peoples whom the Greeks called "Skuf", and their country was called "the country of Skuf", about which they write that it is a large country divided by rivers. For it stretches from the beginning of the Danube and Dnieper, or Borystenes, and then covers the entire Crimean land, up to the Don, or Tanais, and to the Volga, or Ra, and the Yaik river. Then it covers wild fields up to the Sinsky state and the Amur River. It stretches from the Amur to the state of Siberia.

This nation is more numerous than any other in the whole world. Many kingdoms have origin from them, namely: Bulgaria, Ligri, Türks (de Turken) and others.

Not only many princes feared the Scythians (Skufe), but even Alexander the Great. Now their languages and names are different, but their manners, customs and weapons are the same."

But be that as it may, these cities exist. True, for some reason they all turned out to be covered with a thick layer of earth - from 3m (Gorgippia) to 10m (Phanagoria). And not all of these cities are at the water's edge. And many are quite high above sea level.

Olbia

Olbia, located on the right bank of the Bug estuary, had a trapezoidal outline in plan (Fig. 1), bounded from the land by deep natural ravines.

1. Olbia. Plan (indicating the excavation sites of B. V. Farmakovsky).

Olbia. Modern look.

Chersonesos

Chersonesos was planned on the peninsula, and therefore the city square followed its contours.

Chersonesos. City plan and fortress gates, III century. BC. (above them is the opening of the Roman time).

Chersonesos. Reconstruction plan.

Chersonesos. Modern look.

Panticapaeum

The compositional center of the urban ensemble of Panticapaeum, located in a deep bay of the Kerch Strait, was a high ridge towering over the area. The acropolis was located on it. The city surrounded the hill (Mithridates) with terraces and descended to the flat part.

View of Panticapaeum from the sea.

Panticapaeum. Modern look.

Phanagoria

Phanagoria in plan had the form of an irregular quadrangle.

Fanagoria. Modern look.

Tanais

Tanais is almost a square.

Tanais scheme.

Tanais. Modern look.

Quite often you can observe the location of cities on two terraces. An example of this is Olbia, the Bosporan cities of Phanagoria, Kepa, etc.

Caps

Caps. Modern look.

Tiritaka

Plan-scheme of the Tiritaka settlement.

Tiritaka. Modern look.

Excavations of the ancient Greek settlement of Tiritaka.

Mirmeky

Ancient settlement Mirmeky.

Mirmeky. Modern look.

The area of the cities was relatively small. Olbia at the time of its heyday occupied an area of about 50 hectares, Chersonesos - about 40 hectares, Phanagoria - about 50 hectares, Kepa - 20-25 hectares.

Cities were surrounded by walls. Very few remains of the ancient city walls have been discovered. These are the walls of the Bosporan cities of Tiritaki and Panticapaeum. The Panticapaean walls were made of polygonal or hewn blocks that form two shells. The space between them was filled with huge boulders. The walls of Tiritaki were built of mud bricks on stone foundations at the beginning of the 5th century. BC. Interestingly, they were built in the intervals between individual houses and therefore had the character of a simple fence. Later, in the IV-III centuries. BC, the original walls of Tiritaka were fortified (Fig. 3). About the walls with towers that surrounded Olbia at the beginning of the 5th century. BC, we know only from the message of Herodotus.