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4 unusual facts about Michael Rostovtzeff


Arimaspi

Michael Rostovtzeff found a rendering of the subject in the Vault of Pygmies near Kerch, a territory that used to have a significant Scythian population.

Dura-Europos

Later, renewed campaigns directed by Michael Rostovtzeff continued until 1937, when funds ran out with only part of the excavations published.

Kahn Lectures

The first of these scholars was the Russian classical scholar Michael Rostovtzeff, who had already settled in the United States in 1918, after the Russian revolution.

Tsemes Bay

Michael Rostovtzeff explained this by the fact that there are no other decent harbours along the coastline all the way to Batumi.



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