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Melek-Chesmensky and Tsarsky burial mounds

Melek-Chesmensky and Tsarsky burial mounds

Mound Melek Chesmen

Crimea, Kerch

Melek-Chesmensky and Tsarsky burial mounds

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Melek-Chesmensky and Tsarsky burial mounds

Mound Melek Chesmen

Crimea, Kerch

From the top of Mount Mithridates in Kerch, two gray hills are clearly visible. These are the famous Melek-Chesmensky and Tsarsky burial mounds. Inside them are stone crypts, mute witnesses of the former glory of Panticapaeum. Both monuments were built, presumably, in the second half of the 4th century BC.

The Melek-Chesmensky mound is a construction of very impressive dimensions: its diameter is 60 meters and its height is eight meters. The space of the crypt increases in height from the entrance to the center of the chamber, giving the structure monumentality and significance. The corridor (dromos) and the burial chamber itself (cella) are not demarcated by an architecturally designed entrance, but are solved as a single whole: the dromos flows freely under the vault of the burial chamber. This is the originality and originality of the monument.
During the excavations of the Tsar's burial mound, no burial was found in the tomb: it was plundered in antiquity. However, judging by its size and impressiveness, it is believed that a representative of the Spartokid dynasty, the Bosporan kings, was buried in it. This burial mound is much larger than Melek-Chesmensky: its height reaches 17 meters, its circumference is 260 meters, and its diameter is 80 meters. The remarkable burial mounds of Panticapaeum are monuments of world significance. Their exquisite and strict proportions capture the extraordinary skill of first-class Bosporan craftsmen.

Melek-Chesme Kurgan is located in the central part of the city of Kerch, on the territory of the city bus station. This is a monument of funerary architecture of the heyday of the Bosporan kingdom. This kind of monumental crypts-tombs were built by the local nobility. The mound got its name from the river flowing nearby - Melek-Chesma, which means "Royal River" in Turkic. The time of the construction of the mound is the 4th century. BC e.

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