Bulgaria's leading archaeologist, Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov, and his team have found a rotunda mausoleum at one of Bulgaria's emblematic archaological sites - the ancient rock city of Perperikon. The new site is a rotunda mausoleum rotunda of the..
Archaeologists have unearthed four graves dating back to 8,000 years ago in the early Neolithic settlement of Slatina in Bulgaria's capital Sofia. T he unearthed skeletons are of three adults and a child, said the Deputy Chairman of the Bulgarian..
Archaeologists have discovered a treasure in the Kaliakra Fortress on the northern Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The treasure was discovered in a little clay pot hidden under the floor of a room that burned down at the end of the 14th century, the..
A unique vault with frescoes dating back to the Late Antiquity was found on August 2 during the repair works on Moscovska Street in Sofia, Mayor Yordanka Fandakova announced. The vault was discovered near the Saint Sofia church. It was probably built..
A lead seal of a type not previously discovered in Bulgaria has been discovered by archaeologists working at the medieval fortress of Lyutitsa near Ivaylovgrad. The image of Byzantine Empress Irene is on one side of the seal, while the other shows..
Bulgarian archaeologists discovered a Thracian sanctuary from the Hellenistic period near the Bulgaria-Greece border. The finds prove the close contacts between the Greek and the Thracian civilizations in the Rhodopes. The sanctuary was discovered near..
During archaeological work this summer at the ancient Roman fortress of Sostra near the Bulgarian town of Troyan, three residential buildings dating back to the III-IV century and used by the Roman military were discovered. Precious silver, bronze..
