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Ancient Temple and Sanctuary Uncovered in Bulgaria
... Zeus and Hera in Sredna Gora, a mountain range in central Bulgaria. The Thracians were a group of Indo-European tribes ... church. Thracian discoveries are considered significant in Bulgaria since the Thracians are one of the three primary ... April Holloway Ancient Temple and Sanctuary Uncovered in Bulgaria ...
aprilholloway - 23/07/2013 - 00:04
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Burying A Thracian Tower-Tomb In A Huge Mound Didn’t Deter Ottoman Grave Robbers!
Bulgaria is a land that is blessed with a great many important historic and archaeological sites. Bulgaria is a land that is blessed with a great many ... to loot one of the largest Thracian burial mounds in Bulgaria that has been found to contain a Roman-era ...
Ed Whelan - 11/07/2019 - 17:53
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Skeleton of Ancient Sports Fan Found Buried with Head-Shaped Jar
A grave has been found in Bulgaria with the skeleton of an ancient sportsman or sports ... head of a boxer or a wrestler. A grave has been found in Bulgaria with the skeleton of an ancient sportsman or sports ... village of Boyanovo, Elkhovo, in the southeastern part of Bulgaria by a team of archaeologists from the Bulgarian ...
Ed Whelan - 29/09/2019 - 13:57
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7,000-Year-Old Ceramic Fragment with Signs, Symbols and Swastika May Be One of the Oldest Examples of Writing
... the ancient Roman site of Ad Putea in modern Riben, Bulgaria, researchers made a startling discovery – an ... settlement that lay below the Roman site. Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that the artifact in question is a fragment ... that the earliest writing actually emerged in Northwest Bulgaria. Apart from the ceramic fragment, he says that about ...
Alicia McDermott - 29/08/2016 - 21:55
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The Enigma of the Thracians and the Orpheus Myth
... this ancient civilization that occupied what is now Bulgaria and some adjoining parts of Romania, Greece and ... of years. Not coincidentally it was found in Provadia (Bulgaria) the oldest prehistoric city in Europe, dated ... nor in Egypt, nor in pre-Columbian America but in Varna (Bulgaria), and dates from 4,600 BC. Provadia, Bulgaria. Photo ...
madomartínez - 11/06/2014 - 13:59
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Mushroom Monuments of Thrace and Ancient Sacred Rites
Throughout northeastern Greece, western Turkey, and Bulgaria, in the region known in antiquity as Macedonia, ... mushroom cap. The Stone Mushrooms near Beli Plast Village, Bulgaria. ( Public Domain ) Sacred Ritual Sites The external ... the village of Zimzelen, Kardzhali Province, southern Bulgaria. ( CC BY-SA 2.5 ) Psychoactive Winemaking, a Mastery ...
Carl Ruck - 29/01/2016 - 03:50
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The Staggeringly Well-Preserved Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari
... just south of what is now Sveshtari, Razgrad Province in Bulgaria. In 1982, the now-famous Thracian tomb of ... just south of what is now Sveshtari, Razgrad Province in Bulgaria. The tomb of Sveshtari likely belonged to ... on both sides of the Danube in present-day Romania and Bulgaria in around 300 BC. The tomb of Sveshtari has been ...
Mark Brophy - 09/07/2022 - 18:56
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Golden Varna Plate Linked To Daring Sea Voyage Between Black Sea and Egypt 7,000 Years Ago
... on an ancient ceramic vessel that was found in Varna, Bulgaria that one expert believes is linked to another kind ... and Portals Giant Human Skeleton unearthed in Varna, Bulgaria Let’s take a look at the path from an odd looking ... Varna In 1972, archaeologists near Varna in Northeastern Bulgaria were excavating an extensive site of eight ...
Alicia McDermott - 10/08/2019 - 16:43
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Vampire Slaying Kit Sells During High-Stakes Bidding War
... presence in the kit.” An 800-year-old skeleton found in Bulgaria stabbed through the chest with iron rod. (Bin im Garten / CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Anti-Vampire Rituals in Bulgaria Back in 2013, Bulgarian archaeologist Nikolay ... the living. The legends formed an important part of Bulgaria’s folklore, as well as other countries throughout ...
Cecilia Bogaard - 02/07/2022 - 01:54
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Bizarre Discovery of Werewolf-Like Skull in a Chained Box in Bulgaria
... Discovery of Werewolf-Like Skull in a Chained Box in Bulgaria ...
aprilholloway - 30/10/2014 - 12:00
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The Enigma of the Thracians and the Orpheus Myth – Part 2
... ruins of an abandoned place called Perperikon in southern Bulgaria. It is a real city-temple, which can still be seen ... followers of Dionysus. The ancient site of Perperikon, Bulgaria. Photo source . Some archaeologists maintain that ... Throat, a cave in the Rhodope Mountains, south-eastern Bulgaria. I went there looking for answers. The Devil’s ...
madomartínez - 12/06/2014 - 13:27
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Earliest Evidence Of Horse Riding Found in 5,000-year-old Skeletons
... on 5,000 years old bodies from modern Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, provide the earliest evidence of horse riding ever ... on 5,000 years old bodies from modern Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, provide the earliest evidence of horse riding ever ... unearthed from kurgan burial mounds discovered in Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, and the leg and hip bones of four of ...
ashley cowie - 08/03/2023 - 00:55
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Ancient Ship Graveyard Embroiled In Biblical Flood Mystery
... archaeologist, Zdravka Georgieva, and scientists from Bulgaria’s Centre for Underwater Archaeology (CUA) in ...
ashley cowie - 23/10/2019 - 13:55
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Witches, Vampires and Werewolves – 10 Ghoulish Archaeological Discoveries
... ‘vampire’ grave In 2013, archaeologists working on Bulgaria’s Perperikon site found the skeleton of a male ... It is not the first ‘vampire grave’ to be uncovered in Bulgaria. The discovery echoes a similar one made in Sozopol. Throughout Bulgaria, the remains of over 100 vampire-treated people, all ...
aprilholloway - 31/10/2017 - 19:16
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Varna Man and the Wealthiest Grave of the 5th Millennium BC
In the 1970s, archaeologists in Bulgaria stumbled upon a vast Copper Age necropolis from the ... city of Varna. In the 1970s, archaeologists in Bulgaria stumbled upon a vast Copper Age necropolis from the ... that emerged in a little corner of what would become Bulgaria and disappeared quickly into the pages of history. ...
Joanna Gillan - 20/07/2020 - 19:57
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Tiny Black Sea Island may be Hiding Lost Temple of Apollo
... the Greek and Roman god Apollo may be hiding in Sozopol, Bulgaria, known in ancient times as Apollonia Pontica - ... Project have been exploring the ancient city of Sozopol, Bulgaria. Their findings of temples, altars and artifacts ... Krastina Panayotova from the Archaeology Institute of Bulgaria began excavations in Sozopol, but from 2013 the ...
lizleafloor - 30/05/2018 - 00:29
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Can We Ever Find Jesus’s DNA?
... in the Black Sea, just off Sozopol on the east coast of Bulgaria. It was the first stop on an extraordinary ... in the Black Sea, just off Sozopol on the east coast of Bulgaria. Sveti Ivan has long been a destination for ...
ancient-origins - 02/05/2017 - 02:01
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Cadaver Synod: The Exhumed Corpse of Pope Formosus That Was Put on Trial
... For the next decade or so, he worked as a missionary in Bulgaria and France. In 872, he was considered for the papacy ... was then asked by the Bulgarians to be the Archbishop of Bulgaria but he was denied this post by Pope Nicholas I. Sick ...
Kerry Sullivan - 30/11/2016 - 00:47
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Salt: Treasure of the Ancient World and Highly-Valued Currency of the Roman Empire
... salt production site is located in the city of Provadia, Bulgaria. It is also believed to be one of the oldest cities ... salt. Reconstruction of the fortified city of Solnitsata, Bulgaria, 4700 - 4200 BC. (Kenny Arne Lang Antonsen/ CC BY SA ...
Natalia Klimczak - 10/10/2016 - 00:49
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A marble slab inscription invoking a goddess sheds light on Thracian history
... Rome conquered the enigmatic people, has been unearthed in Bulgaria. The inscription brings to mind Percy Bysshe ... as well as their dynastic links,” reports Archaeology in Bulgaria . “The inscription is the first historical source ... exactly how the text should be translated, Archaeology in Bulgaria gives it thus: 'Apollonius, (son) of E(p)taikenthos, ...
Mark Miller - 20/07/2015 - 00:30