Phanagoria, the Russian Atlantis

The account

On a peninsula between two seas stood Phanagoria, once the greatest Greek city of the eastern Black Sea and capital of the Bosporan kings. The water has taken a third of it; the rest waits on land. Divers in the bay bring up amphorae, marble, and the foundations of quays, the underwater half of one of the largest archaeological sites in Russia, where the sea and the dig meet at the shoreline.

Leads, where the trail points now

• Pin down the most specific last-known position in the record before going; the search centers on Taman Peninsula, Black Sea, Russia.
• What you are chasing is The capital of the Bosporan Kingdom, a third of it under the bay. Work the documented record of Phanagoria, the Russian Atlantis back to primary sources and separate what is attested from folklore.
• Russian state archaeological site, underwater work by permitted expeditions only.