Raw brick in building tradition and funerary practice in Greece and the Bosporus

The article gives an answer to the question – who built mud graves in the Bosporus? In Russian historiography, there was an idea according to which barbarians were buried in raw graves, who built them for their dead. Archaeological realities contradict this traditional view. To solve a debatable and extremely important issue for Bosporus archeology, examples of mud-brick house-building and the use of mud-brick in burial practice in the Greek world of the Mediterranean are given, the place and time of the origin of the tradition of building mudbrick burial structures are determined, the ways of distribution and interpretation of this rite are traced. Based on this, analogies are drawn with the archaeological sites of the Bosporus, which leads researchers to the only conclusion – this is a Greek tradition that arrived in the Northern Black Sea region only with colonists.