Bulgaria’s Black Sea City Burgas to Build Park with Scale Models of European Landmarks
The city of Burgas, the center of Bulgaria’s Southern Black Sea coast with its many resorts, is set to build a new cultural landmark – a park with scale models of European landmarks from all over the continent.
Europe Marks 50 Years since Prague Spring Was Suppressed by Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact in 1968
On August 21, 2018, Czechia, Slovakia, and all of Europe remember the 50th year since the Prague Spring, a push for greater freedom, reforms, and liberalization in the former Czechoslovakia, was violently suppressed by an armed invasion of the Soviet…
Bulgaria’s Balchik to ‘Move’ Cybele Temple of Ancient Dionysopolis Closer to Black Sea Beaches
The local authorities in Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort of Balchik are mulling “moving closer to the sea" a well preserved temple of ancient goddess Cybele, which was discovered by accident in 2007.
Fathers of Bulgarian Archaeology, the Skorpil Brothers, to Be Honored in Exhibit Dedicated to ‘Bulgarian Czechs’
Karel Skorpil and Hermann Skorpil, also known as the Skorpil Brothers, who founded modern-day Bulgarian archaeology at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, will be honored in a special exhibition dedicated to the Czechs…
Archaeologists Discover Satyr Mask in Ancient Greek Emporium Pistiros in Thracians’ Odrysian Kingdom near Bulgaria’s Vetren
A mask of a satyr, a male companion of ancient wine god Dionysus with horse-like features, has been discovered by archaeologists near the town of Vetren in Southern Bulgaria during the 2015 summer excavations of Pistiros, an Ancient Greek emporium,…
Bulgarian Archaeologists to Start Excavations of Ancient Greek Emporium in Thracians’ Odrysian Kingdom
Bulgarian archaeologists are due to start next week the 2015 summer excavations of Pistiros, an Ancient Greek emporium, i.e. a trading post deep inside the territory of the Ancient Thracian Odrysian Kingdom whose ruins are located in Bulgaria’s southern town…
