Sailing off the Coast of Crimea in Antiquity and Middle Ages: the Results of Research of the Underwater Archaeological Expedition of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Sevastopol State University
Journal: Istoriya
Year: 2021

During underwater archaeological investigation in the water area of Sevastopol, a joint expedition of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Sevastopol State University discovered two unique underwater objects. Near the settlement of Balaklava, as a result of exploration using side-scan sonar, the shipwrecks were located, which date back to the 11th — 12th centuries AD Further studies of these deep-water objects (their depth is 85—86 meters) were carried out