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| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
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Bulgaria Archaeologists Present Unique Thracian Tomb Finds |
| A team of Bulgarian archaeologists led by Veselin Ignatov formally presented Tuesday their finds from the tomb of an aristocrat from Ancient Thrace near the southern town of Nova Zagora. More. Labels: bulgaria, grave, roman empire, thracian |
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| Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
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Bulgarian Archaeologists Find Silver Treasure in Thracian Tomb |
| A team of Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a new tomb of an aristocrat from Ancient Thrace near the southern town of Nova Zagora. The team led by archaeologist Veselin Ignatov found a burial tomb of 12 square meters date back to the end of 1st century and beginning of 2nd century AD. It is located outside of the village of Karanovo. More. Labels: bulgaria, dig, roman empire |
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| Monday, October 12, 2009 |
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Across the map of Bulgaria |
| There is no need to be a shrewd detective to discover the vestiges of Romans and Thracians who inhabited the Bulgarian lands many centuries ago. Mystic rock shrines, dolmens, Antiquity villas and ancient castles, as well as the valuable archeological finds dug out in them, reveal some of the secrets regarding the habits and ways of our forefathers. More. Labels: bulgaria, roman empire, ruin, thracian |
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| Friday, October 09, 2009 |
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Australia SBS TV Releases Film on Treasure Hunting in Bulgaria * * * |
| "Plundering the Past" focuses on the ancient Roman town of Ratiaria located on the Danube River in northeast Bulgaria, which was one of the six arsenal towns in the Roman Empire during the height of its power under Emperor Trajan (98 AD - 117 AD). Video here. Labels: bulgaria, dig, roman empire, ruin |
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| Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
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The Transition to Late Antiquity |
| Large-scale excavations at Dichin, an early Byzantine Fortress, and intensive field survey in north central Bulgaria. The aim of this research programme (1996-2002) has been to investigate the character of the countryside on the Lower Danube during Late Antiquity. More. Labels: bulgaria, byzantine, dig, roman empire |
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| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
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A Roman Military Camp in Bulgaria |
| By the first century A.D., the Romans had expanded their imperial reach into the eastern Balkans of present-day Europe. Among the many forts and towns they established in the region was the impressive fort of Conbustica, located in the northwest region of modern-day Bulgaria. The fort, situated on a plateau overlooking two major river valleys, was strategically positioned on the main road through the Roman province of Moesia. More. Labels: bulgaria, dig, military, roman empire |
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| Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
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The Goldens Wonders of the Bulgarian Archaeology - Video |
| BULGARIA - A JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE THRACIAN KINGS . Bulgaria gold treasure tourism God music video Mystery property folklore world song winner JOURNEY LAND THRACIAN KINGS Legend has it that about 9 - 10 millennia BC, after the submerging of Atlantis the only surviving principality was the "Manou - meaning "Principality of Knowledge"). The survivors found shelter in South-Eastern Europe, where they merged with the natives. The legend says that this is how the Thracians came to be. From the Carpathians to the Aegean, from the Adriatic to the Black Sea the numerous Thracian tribes spread but their peace did not lost very long. Then in the III century BC other tribes invaded from North. Labels: bulgaria, dig, roman empire |
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| Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
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Bulgaria - Treasure Hunters |
2,000 years ago, this hill was one of the richest and most important centres of the Roman Empire. A town built around a weapons arsenal on the Danube River in north-west Bulgaria.
DIANA GERGOVA, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS: It was one of the biggest towns along the Danubian limes, I mean the boundary of the Roman Empire, in the Roman period.
Today, Ratsiaria, could have been a tourist attraction to rival those in Italy and Greece but there is not a tourist in site. Instead with the authorities standing by, illegal treasure hunters backed by powerful Mafias, have turned Ratsiaria into a wasteland.
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Historical re-enactment in Svishtov |
| For a second year running, the Bulgarian town of Svishtov on the Danube River was the site of mock battles, re-creating the era when the area was the border of the Roman Empire. Held on September 18-20, the Festival of Ancient Heritage drew participants from Italy, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria, which re-enacted military life and battles between soldiers from the Roman Empire and enemy tribes. Labels: bulgaria, re-enactment, roman empire |
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| Monday, September 21, 2009 |
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Villagers Cook Beans in Antique Roman Jars |
| In 1868, legendary Austro-Hungarian archaeologist and ethnographer Felix Philipp Kanitz while searching for the old Roman road from Ratiaria to Naissus (now Nis, Serbia), stopped in the Bulgarian village of Kladorub, situated some 18 km away from the Black Sea town of Belogradchik. There he saw the ruins of an ancient fortress and towers, orientated towards the four cardinal directions. Kanitz was the first to create the hypothesis that this was the Roman military fort known as Conbustica. At the beginning of the 20th century, excavations started at this site but shortly after the archaeologists lost interest in the fortress. The black archaeologists didn't lose time and started digging in the region. Labels: bulgaria, dig, military, road, roman empire, ruin |
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Three stone ceremonial breads are found in excavations |
Starosel. Three stone ritual breads - round loaves were found in the archaeological excavations during the Starosel – 2009 expedition in 30 meters depth Chetinyova mound in the village of Starosel, where the largest Thracian temple in the Balkan Peninsula was built. That is what Dr. Ivan Hristov - Deputy Director of the National History Museum said for FOCUS News Agency.
Labels: bulgaria, dig, museum, roman empire, temple |
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Military life and battles of Roman Empire |
Actors dressed as Roman soldiers surround "Goth soldiers" during a re-enactment scene as part of the Festival of Ancient Heritage in the town of Svishtov, some 230 km (142 miles) north-east of Sofia, September 19, 2009. Several groups from Italy, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria took part in the festival re-enacting military life and battles between soldiers from the Roman Empire and enemy tribes.
Labels: bulgaria, entertainement, italy, military, roman empire |
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| Saturday, September 19, 2009 |
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Bulgaria: Archaeologists Discover Roman Artefacts at the Dimum Fortress |
| 18 September 2009 | Bronze fibulae - Roman brooches used to fasten clothes, a marble pair of scales and bronze coins from the third and fourth centuries were discovered during archaeological excavations of the ancient fortress Dimum near the town of Belene in northern Bulgaria. Labels: bulgaria, dig, roman empire |
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| Friday, September 18, 2009 |
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Hat Trick Victory Against Artefact Looting |
| A hat-trick of victories have been won around the world this week in the global fight against the theft and sale of archaeological artefacts – a multi-million dollar international industry. The arrest of three men in Bulgaria in connection with their possession of a number of precious Roman coins and other items is particularly heartening, since it offers some sign that the tide might be turning in the struggle against a black-market industry that has been destroying the country’s rich ancient heritage. Labels: bulgaria, roman empire |
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| Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
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Bulgaria Archaeologist Finds Unique Golden Chariot from Ancient Thrace |
| An exhibition displaying an absolutely unique golden decoration of a chariot from Ancient Thrace was opened Wednesday in the Mall of Sofia, in the downtown of the Bulgarian capital. The Thracian chariot in question was technically in fact found in 1976 near the village of Karanovo but no one had realized its existence. Only at the beginning of 2009, archaeologist Veselin Ignatov, who is the head of the history museum in the town of Nova Zagora, Southeast Bulgaria, and a specialist on Thracian chariots, actually discovered it as he was inspecting earlier finds stored in the museum basement. Labels: bulgaria, museum, roman empire, thracian |
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Bulgaria Archaeologists Find Unique Cult Complex at Perperikon |
| A team led by Bulgarian archaeologist Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov has uncovered an enormous cult complex at the ancient Thracian city of Perperikon in the Rhodoppe Mountains. The complex consists of at least 9 altars each 2 meters in diameter located on an area of 12 square km. They are dated back to about 1 500 BC thanks to objects discovered around them, which is about the time of Ancient Egypt and the civilization of Mycenae and Minoan Crete. This is the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. Labels: bulgaria, dig, egypt, roman empire |
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Treasure Hunters Busted with Archaeology Finds in Bulgaria |
Three treasure hunters where caught with archaeological items in the western Bulgarian town of Bobovdol Wednesday. The men aged 41, 42, and 52, have criminal records; they were captured with 30 Roman bronze coins - one dated to 1st century BC, and the others - to 3rd-5th centuries AD, two Roman rings, a spear head, and lead melts.
Labels: bulgaria, roman empire |
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| Friday, September 11, 2009 |
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Death circumstances and their pointing out on funerary inscriptions of the Roman Dacia |
As secondary information the cause of death may also be recorded. In this matter one may take into consideration three inscriptions of people killed by brigands, these being the only documents of this type existing in Dacia. The inscriptions were discovered on the territory of Drobeta, a fact which may suggest the possibility that the mentioned brigands be the same in all three cases.
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| Thursday, September 10, 2009 |
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Terminium Roman Excavation on Flickr |
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| Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
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| Wednesday, September 02, 2009 |
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| Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
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| Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
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| Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
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| Saturday, February 15, 2003 |
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| Archaeological Discovery in Bulgaria Clue to Ancient Mystery
Bulgarian archaeologists discovered an oval ritual hall fitting the description that ancient historians gave to the Dionysus Temple in the Rhodope range famous for its splendor and mysteriousness in antique times and for the many failed attempts to determine its exact location in modernity.
feb03w3 Labels: bulgaria, temple |
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| Friday, December 06, 2002 |
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| Friday, November 29, 2002 |
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| Wednesday, August 14, 2002 |
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| Archaeology Magazine A triumphal gate to Asia in Roman times; the garden of Constantinople in the Middle Ages; a bastion of Ottoman imperialism in the modern era; and the scene of much hardship for Greeks, Turks, and Bulgarians caused by European political maneuvering from the nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, Thrace has always been a contested land.
aug02w3 Labels: asia, bulgaria, turkey |
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