Bulgaria Archive
Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Bulgaria's rich history spans approximately 6,000 years, during which numerous influential civilizations and empires have left their mark on the region. This diverse
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists has made an exciting discovery in Bulgaria, excavating a remarkably well-preserved statue within an ancient sewer system. The artifact
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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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare 2,500-year-old Scythian bone sceptre has been found in a grave by archaeologists excavating in the prehistoric salt mining and urban center
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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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Archaeologists have discovered one of the oldest Cyrillic inscriptions from the time of King Simeon the Great This important discovery was made in the
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Artifacts
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Bulgaria, situated in southeastern Europe on the Black Sea, has a long, fascinating history and a rich culture. It is one of the
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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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating at the Roman legionary camp in Novae, northern Bulgaria, archaeologists unearthed an ancient "refrigerator" and some unique coins that shed more
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Archaeology
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
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A submerged prehistoric settlement on the Black Sea coast, has been discovered by underwater archaeologists. The settlement was inhabited around 1,000 years earlier
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two kilns from the Early Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper Age) period (ca. 4,800 – 4,600 BC) have been unearthed at the Bazovets Settlement Mound
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People say that the Aquae Calidae near Bourgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast has a thousand-year history. In fact, the place
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Archaeology
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.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations of a previously unknown church in the medieval city of Cherven have revealed the 14th-century murals containing a scene with “warrior saints”. Cherven,
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Artifacts
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A spooky, ancient underwater graveyard located thousands of feet below the Black Sea may solve the mystery of the Biblical Great Flood and
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that a huge 40-meter (130-foot) long tunnel for looting that fit large draft animals to pass through, was unearthed by a
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Archaeology
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
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Battle of Abrittus was one of the greatest battles of the Late Antiquity. Roman three legions were defeated, and Roman Emperor Trajan Decius
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Archaeology
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.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A set of five Ancient Roman mirror frames have been unearthed in the ruins of an intriguing Roman villa that belonged to a Roman military veteran, and is located
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
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
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient city of Pliska was once the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire after the Ancient Bulgars shifted the center of their state from
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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
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The eastern necropolis of the ancient city of Serdica has been found during construction work at the site, which will be the location of a new hotel
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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
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1928, strange signs were discovered on the wall of a cave near Sitovo next to Plovdiv, Bulgaria. These mysterious markings that are
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the Regional Museum of History in the city of Veliko Tarnovo in Northern Bulgaria are hoping to restart the archaeological excavations of a surviving 14-meter
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Archaeology
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,
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Kovachevsko Kale Fortress is located in the vicinity of the town of Popovo in Northeast Bulgaria. A few years ago, archaeologists discovered a
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Excavations conducted in one of Europe’s oldest prehistoric settlements – the Solnitsata (‘Salt Pit’), located in the vicinity of a town in Provadia, in northeastern Bulgaria,
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Artifacts
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.
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Nearly a year ago, a sacrificial altar dedicated to an unknown Pagan god, Porobonus, was discovered in Bulgaria. The limestone artifact, dating back
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