breakingnews:

Reuters: Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered ancient golden artifacts, including bracelets with snake heads and a tiara with animal motifs during excavating a Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria.

The new artifacts are dated back to the end of the 4th or beginning of 3rd century BC. They were found in the biggest of 150 ancient tombs of a Thracian tribe, the Getae.

Archaeologists have found a large number of artifacts in Bulgaria’s Thracian tombs in recent decades.

fyeaheasterneurope:

Thrace, according to the Nuremberg Chronicle, published in 1493.

(I’ll be honest, I am completely unsure of what any of these buildings are supposed to represent, and I used to live in Thrace.)

archaeology:

Plovdiv wants to expand Roman Forum dig after several finds

Archaeologists working on digs at the Roman Forum and Odeon sites in Bulgaria’s second city of Plovdiv have unearthed a number of interesting finds from various periods and the city now wants to expand excavations at the Forum site.

The Forum site, near the current modern-era central Post Office, dates from the first to second centuries CE. Overall, it covers about 11 hectares, making it arguably the largest such Roman-era forum site in Bulgaria.

The Post Office dates to the 1970s, to the communist era when 19th and early 20th century buildings were razed to make way for it and other large-scale buildings adjoining it on a large square. Some archaeologists believe that any number of archaeological finds lie waiting to be discovered beneath the massive concrete of the Post Office.

Nearby is the Odeon site, dating from the second to fifth centuries, location of a Roman-era theatre, smaller in scale than Plovdiv’s well-known ancient theatre in the city’s Old Town.

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Other finds at the site, which by late August had been excavated to a depth of 2.5m, included coins dating from, variously, the third century to as late as the reign of Sultan Murad, who ruled from 1359 to 1389.

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mediumaevum:

The discovery of a 700-year-old skeleton in Bulgaria—seen at the country’s National Museum of History in June—offers evidence that the fear of vampires is far older than Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The “vampire” was found entombed among church ruins in the Black Sea town of Sozopol (map) earlier in the month. The skeleton had been stabbed in the chest with an iron rod (upper right), which was in the tomb next to the body.

In addition, the skeleton’s teeth had been pulled. Scholars believe the rod and tooth-pulling were techniques villagers used to prevent dead men from turning into vampires.

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