The collection of scientific papers presents the works of teachers of higher educational institutions, employees of research institutes and museums in Russia (Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Moscow), Ukraine (Sevastopol, Kharkov), Bulgaria (Shumen). The collection is devoted to the problems of history and culture of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium and the countries of the Byzantine cultural circle. The articles cover a wide range of issues in economic, political, spiritual history, sigillography, archeology, art history and historiography of antiquity and the Middle Ages.