Exhibition "The Past of Taurida"

About exhibition

In the thematic section, which displays the most representative part of the museum's archaeological collection, visitors are taken on a journey through the ages — from the earliest times to the late Middle Ages. Flint, bone and wooden artifacts and remains of ancient animals tell the story of the Stone Age — the Early and Late Paleolithic. The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age are richly represented, as well as the history of ancient Taurica (6th–2nd centuries BCE) and the Late Scythian state, the subject of the Great Migration of Peoples and Taurica during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The exhibition features a collection of ancient amphorae produced in Ancient Greece, a set of ancient and medieval ceramic containers, altar slabs, cult and funerary stelae, and sets of jewelry from medieval women's costume. Exhibits in several display cases reflect the everyday life and cultural aspects of the medieval states of the 14th–15th centuries on the territory of Crimea: the principality of Theodoro (Crimean Gothia), the Genoese colonies (Caffa, Sudak) and the Crimean Khanate.