Archaeologists handed over 453 new finds to the Bulgarian Museum

A group of scientists, members of the Budzhak Archaeological Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine visited Bolhrad in Odesa region and handed over 453 items found during the last expedition to the local historical and ethnographic museum.

According to the museum, it is about archaeological research of multilayered settlements in the Mantul and Dondor tracts in the Bolhrad district near the village of Krynychne.

The objects found there from the XVII - XVIII centuries were transferred to the museum for permanent storage. The expedition was led by Artem Borysov.

"In search of new interesting things about the history of Bolgrad, we visited Tourist Bolgrad today. And we were not mistaken. They shared with us a new tourist location - part of the city's underground floor. We also visited the Bolgrad City Library and found interesting articles on the place names of the region. The main part of the day was devoted to preparing archaeological material for donation to the collections," he wrote.

Earlier, the pavement at the excavation site in the center of Odesa near the monument to Richelieu, where archaeologists found the remains of the wall in the summer of 2025, was restored, and the head of the excavations, Andrii Krasnozhon, told the Real History project how he was looking for the right place. In an interview, the scientist said that he found the information he needed in Moscow before the Revolution of Dignity. There, he found reports from the officers who stormed the fortress, where a map of the fortifications of the time showed how the assault took place. The map of the fortress led Andrii Krasnorozhen to the site of future excavations.

Andrii Krasnozhon believes that Khadjibey could have been built by the Genoese, who actively traded with the Dzhuchi Ulus, better known in national historiography as the Golden Horde. The Genoese built fortresses in the Black Sea and Crimea for trade. This theory is indirectly confirmed by the findings of ceramics from the first half of the 14th century.

Кирило Бойко