An ancient burial with a "ticket" to the kingdom of the dead was found in Crimea

In the city of Kerch in eastern Crimea, burials from the Hellenistic period were discovered. They found a coin there

which served for the ancient Greeks as a “ticket” to the kingdom of the dead.

The burials were found during an archaeological expedition of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. TASS writes briefly about the find.

The expedition leader said that in one of theburials, an intact human skeleton was discovered. He had a coin with him. These were placed in the mouth of the deceased. The coin acted as payment for transporting the soul across the Lethe River to the afterlife. Charon should have taken the money.

Scientists say that the burial belongs to III-IIcenturies BC. TASS specifies that on both sides of the Kerch Strait more than 2.5 thousand years ago, an ancient state was founded - the Bosporan Kingdom. In ancient times, on the site of Kerch, there was the capital of the kingdom of Panticapaeum.