The view shows fragments of amphoras and pitchers found during excavations of the Lower City at the reserve museum of Fanagoria in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Phanagoria was the largest ancient Greek city on the Taman peninsula, spread over two plateaus along the eastern shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus. The city was a large emporium for all the traffic between the coast of the Maeotian marshes and the countries on the southern side of the Caucasus, it was the eastern capital of the Bosporan Kingdom, with Panticapaeum being the western capital.
- Package: Russia Ancient Town Phanagoria
- Categories: Social Issues, Human Interest
- Location: Krasnodar region, Russia
- Event date: 12.08.2019
- Date published: 13.08.2019
- Author: Vitaly Timkiv
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 4886x3223px, 1.7Mb
- Job-ID: 252dcfbd61d4f96e