On Mangup approach to completion of excavation of defensive walls

Photo: "Vestie Kry" Excavation of Mangup-Calais goes to end. The team of experts works here the fifth week. This year researches take place not in the center of medieval fortress, and on its suburb. Dig out defensive walls. Experts the Crimean federal universities study the main defensive line of the medieval ancient settlement on a plateau Mangup. The wall settles down in a cleft 135 meters long. Researchers dig out separate strengthenings which are established where the city is not protected by mountains. Works are conducted at once on three sites. In the wake of lime and arrangement of stones...