Sarkel (fortress)

Photo from the 1930s, Sarkel archaeological site

Sarkel was a Khazarian - Scythian fortress built with Byzantine support around 830 on the Kamyshinka-Ilowlja-Portage , the ruins of which sank in the Zimlyansk reservoir in 1955 .

In the 1930s, the site was excavated by the Soviet archaeologist Mikhail Illarionowitsch Artamonov .

literature

• Michail Illarionowitsch Artamonow: Gold treasure of the Scythians in the Hermitage. Dausien, Hanau 1970 (together with Werner Forman )
• René Grousset , 1970, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia . (translated by Naomi Walford). New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-0627-1

Web links

Commons : Sarkel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• German National Library: Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German National Library: Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov

Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 18 ″  N , 42 ° 16 ′ 23 ″  E