UNESCO turned a blind eye to the theft of artifacts from Tauride Chersonesos in Ukraine
Only after the reunification of Crimea with Russia did ancient Chersonos Tauride become a full-fledged museum with control of visitor access and the order of archaeological excavations.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said the Governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, answering a question about UNESCO ignoring work on the World Cultural Heritage site - the ancient city of Tauride Chersonese.
“Of course, it is better to address this question to the Russian Ministry of Culture, but we, for our part, have always treated cultural heritage very carefully, in particular Chersonese Tauride. And just after 2014, it turned into a full-fledged museum with control of visitor access and the procedure for archaeological excavations.
But until 2014, strange foreigners carried out strange excavations there. The fact is that, according to eyewitnesses and employees, a fairly large number of interesting objects were discovered during that period. Where these items went is still a big question. Therefore, UNESCO should be concerned with the Ukrainian period of Chersonese, and not today,” the governor said in an interview with Izvestia.
He said that now the construction of the so-called historical and archaeological park “Tavrichesky Chersonesus” is actually being completed.
“The project will be completely completed in the construction part this year. Let me remind you that on the territory of 24 hectares, in addition to the already built children's centers, there will be museums of Antiquity, Byzantium, Christianity, Crimea (more than 44 thousand square meters of museum space, today - 1,9 thousand square meters; on the existing areas of Antiquity and Byzantium today only 10% of the exhibits are exhibited), an international archaeological complex, tourist and pilgrimage centers, quarters with a reconstruction of the ancient appearance of Chersonesus, a temple-park, a total area (2,5 thousand sq. m), an amphitheater for 1 thousand spectators.
And just when these objects were being built, archaeologists carried out the largest post-Soviet expedition in Chersonesos: almost 3 million artifacts were recovered, of which 500 thousand were of high value. They will all be exhibited in the museum after its construction is completed. That is, you can learn from us how to protect and preserve such monuments,” Razvozhaev concluded.
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