FOUND OFF CRIMEA
SUBMERGED CREEK CITY
DIVERS WALK IN ANCIENT STREETS
LONDON, Bth November. Russian divers employed by the Archaeological Society of Moscow are the first men for many centuries to walk the streets of the town of Chersonese, just discovered beneath tho Black Sea, ten miles west of Sebastopol. ■ Seventy-five yards from the shoTe the divers found the ruins of a large number of buildings at depths varying from fifteen, to sixty feet.V •The town is encircled by walls of Greek type belonging to the fourth century before Christ. Strabo, the ancient geographer, who was born in the year 63 8.C., describes the town as inhabited in his day, but the date and manner of its submergence are unknown. ,
Chersonesus, or Chersonese; is the Greek name for peninsula, and. was applied particularly to tne Crimea, Gallipoli, Jutland, and Malacca,'as they are named to-day.
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Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 9
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