A giant stairway known as the (*) Potemkin Stairs is located near the mouth of the Dnieper in Odessa, a city on this body of water.
One city on this body of water holds a necropolis where the oldest golden treasure in the world was discovered. The biblical flood behind Noah's Ark may have actually been a dramatic rise in this body of water's level around 5600 BC, known as its "deluge hypothesis." A giant stairway known as the (*) Potemkin Stairs is located near the mouth of the Dnieper in Odessa, a city on this body of water. The 2014 Winter Olympics will be hosted along its banks in Sochi. The Crimean Peninsula juts into this sea, which is connected to the Sea of Marmara by the Bosporus. For ten points, identify this colorfully-named sea in that borders the Ukraine, Turkey, and Russia.
One city on this body of water holds a necropolis where the oldest golden treasure in the world was discovered.
Black Sea