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Pontos Euxeinos: An Atlas of the Ancient Black Sea Coast

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A multilingual guide to the ancient cities, ports, waterways, artifacts, and archaeological sites of the northern Black Sea.

Why it surfaced

Pontos Euxeinos treats archaeology as a connected landscape rather than a list of ruins, linking places such as Olbia, Chersonesus, Panticapaeum, Tyras, and Nikonion through maps, routes, material finds, and cited sources. Its 38-link structure and dedicated sections for cities, maps, discoveries, and historical connections give this narrow subject the feel of a real reference project.

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