Bulgaria Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Bulgaria remains a significant source of archaeological discoveries related to ancient Thracian culture. Recently, archaeologists uncovered a tomb belonging to a Thracian warrior

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The underwater archaeological survey conducted in June 2024 at Chengene Skele Bay, near Burgas, Bulgaria, has yielded significant findings. The expedition, led by

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The 'Valley of Thracian Kings' is an extraordinary place with numerous burial mounds (tumuli) containing the Thracian rulers' and high aristocrats' tombs and

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Scientists have created an impressive 3D reconstruction of Principia, the legionary fortress in Novae (Bulgaria). By restoring inscribed monuments from the site in

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Can the nearly 7,000-year-old Gradeshnitsa Tablets offer evidence of one of the world's oldest human writing? Are the carved signs and symbols on

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - A remarkable landmark, a surviving 14-meter ancient Roman Obelisk is located near the Veliko Tarnovo district village of Lessicheri in the North-Central region

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international research team has sequenced the genomes of the oldest securely dated modern humans in Europe who lived around 45,000 years ago in

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 1,500-year-old holy well of the Early Christian monastery on the St. Ivan Island was discovered at a depth of almost 5 meters

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Four Early Neolithic tombs estimated to date back 8,000 years have been unearthed by a team of Bulgarian archaeologists excavating the Neolithic Slatina

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A set of ancient copper ingots shaped as discs have been found in a shipwreck near a Black Sea cape in Southeast Bulgaria.

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - More than sixty years ago, a unique discovery was accidentally made in the Valley of Struma River, the river in western Bulgaria, during

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found a marble slab, dating from the end of the second century CE, during excavations at the Roman Forum site in

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The ancient Roman marble child statue head, dated to the third century AD, and a chamber pot have been discovered at the site of

AncientPages.com - The smallest ancient Thracian brick tomb has been unearthed, near the town of Rozovo, Bulgaria.. The tomb dates to the first half of the 3rd century BC.

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Blessing of the Bees is a ceremony practiced in modern Ireland in October every year. The tradition dates back to the early Christian

Ellen Lloyd -  AncientPages.com - One of the most beautiful and mysterious ancient places in Bulgaria is the Thracian city of Perperikon. Located in the Eastern Rhodope range, about 15

AncientPages.com - On November 26, 1476, Vlad III Dracula (1431-1476), ruler of Wallachia, returned from a decade-long exile to take a throne for the last. The man was

AncientPages.com - A fragment of the Late Antiquity fortress wall of the Ancient Roman city of Sexaginta Prista (meaning “Port of the Sixty Ships") has been discovered in the Danube

AncientPages.com - Silver adornments, which were most probably buried in the fall of 1688 during the so called Chiprovtsi Uprising, the largest rebellion of Bulgarian Catholics against the Ottoman Empire,

AncientPages.com - A "frog-like" swastika made of nephrite has been discovered during archaeological excavations of the8,000-year-old Slatina Neolithic Settlement in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. The swastika is 3 cm

AncientPages.com - Ornate ancient Thracian marble steles from a Thracian shrine dedicated to the sun have been restored with a permanent open-air exhibition of replicas of the steles.