The Russians took the gold of Byzantium from the Chersonesus Tavrian museum
[ad_1]
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, the Russians looted the museum-reserve Chersonesos Tavriyskyi. Read UP.Kultura in Telegram This was reported by the representative office of the President of Ukraine in Crimea. “The occupiers ransacked the museum-reserve Chersonesus Tavriyskyi and took Byzantine gold, as well as other artefacts: ancient products made of bone, clay and other materials, to Veliky Novgorod for an exhibition,” the report says. The presidential office also added that the Russians continue illegal archaeological excavations on the territory of this museum. Tavrian Chersonesus is an ancient and Byzantine city-state in the southwestern part of Crimea. In 1892, a National Reserve was opened on the site of the ruins of the settlement. On June 23, 2013, at the 37th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Cambodia, the Tavrian Chersonesus and its choir were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Chersonesus Tavriyskyi Museum. Photo: The Institute of Classical Archeology After Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014, there were concerns about the preservation of the museum’s heritage. In 2015, there were reports that the Russian army poured concrete over the site of an ancient estate on Cape Chersonese. In 2021, the occupation authorities announced that they wanted to expand the New Chersonese complex, but it was criticized for the project’s use of excavators and concrete pouring in the buffer zone. In December 2022, Evelina Kravchenko, a senior researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, said that the Russian occupiers had prepared the collections of Chersonesus Tavriysky for export outside the peninsula. She reported that about a year ago, the occupiers issued an “order” to prepare for the evacuation of the collections of four Sevastopol museums: the Chersonese Tavriyskyi National Reserve, the Sevastopol Art Museum named after Kroshytskyi, the combined museum of panoramas and dioramas, the museum of the naval fleet. Read also: A collection of ancient museum exhibits was found in the ex-deputy. VIDEO
[ad_2]
Original Source Link
