“Cave towns” in the Crimea and the legends of the Deluge
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2024

This article analyses the legends of the “traces of the Deluge” in the Crimea, as described in the works of the “Western” and “Eastern” travellers and writers in the Modern period. These legends stated that the ancient inhabitants of the peninsula witnessed that the sea flooded most of the Crimea, so only the mountain tops rose above the waves. There the people built their dwellings, which remains survived as the “cave towns,” the sites, according to our present knowledge, dating back from the B