#black sea

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Sailors of the Navy Fleet, Black Sea, Sevastopol, Ukraine/Russia, 1930s - by Sergey Shimansky (1898 - 1972), Ukrainian

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View of Odessa on a Moonlit Night by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Bulgarian Black Sea Coast (by Stoyan Velikov)

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© Emanuela Cau

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Blue moon

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The Black Sea drainage basin

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Sevastopol, Crimea by Ekaterina Dmitrenko

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We are adrift, and the thinnest breeze may blow us where it will.

-- Rachel Hartman

(Emona, Bulgaria)

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And life went on. It was not the same.

But it went on.

Black Sea

Before the war

Ochakiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Seyirlik bir düş benden sana

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Gillion's Evil sense ( JRWI RIPTIDE 109 SPOILERS)

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2,100-year-old burial of Aphrodite 'priestess' discovered in Russia

Russian archaeologists have unearthed an intricately detailed silver medallion of the Greek goddess Aphrodite in the 2,100-year-old grave of a young woman, possibly a priestess, on the northeastern coast of the Black Sea.

The medallion also shows 10 — not the known 12 — signs of the zodiac, and gives unique insight into religious practices at that time and place.

Some researchers have proposed that the woman in the grave was a priestess of Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of beauty and love, but there's no way to be sure — although there are indications that her rings, silver earrings and other grave goods were also dedicated to the goddess.

"I do not call the woman buried with this medallion a 'priestess,'" Nikolay Sudarev, an archaeologist with the Russian Academy of Sciences who helped make the discovery, told Live Science. But the burial and its goods appear to be "connected with the cult of Aphrodite," he said. Read more.