![Archaeologists Find nearly 7,000-Year-Old Copper Age Workshop for Production of Flint Tools near Belogradets in Northeast Bulgaria](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/prehistoric-chalcolithic-copper-age-flint-tools-production-center-belogradets-bulgaria-4.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Archaeologists Find nearly 7,000-Year-Old Copper Age Workshop for Production of Flint Tools near Belogradets in Northeast Bulgaria
A prehistoric workshop, or “manufacturing center”, for the production of flint tools going back to ca. 5,000 BC has been discovered by archaeologists near the town of Belogradets, Varna District, in Northeast Bulgaria, in rescue excavations for the construction of…
![7,000-Year-Old Ritual Table with ‘Horned Animal’, First Bulgarian Empire Settlement Found near Varna in Rescue Digs](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/prehistory-neolithic-table-dalgopol-varna-settlement-first-bulgarian-empire-3.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
7,000-Year-Old Ritual Table with ‘Horned Animal’, First Bulgarian Empire Settlement Found near Varna in Rescue Digs
An archaeological site containing structures from both the Neolithic, with a “horned animal” ritual table as especially intriguing find, and the time of the First Bulgarian Empire in the Early Middle Ages, has been discovered by chance near the Black…
![4th Century Bishop’s Basilica with Marvelous Early Christian Bird Mosaics Opened for Visitors Bulgaria’s Plovdiv in Big Restoration Project with US Funding](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5th-century-great-bishops-basilica-early-christian-mosaics-plovdiv-philipopolis-bulgaria-12.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
4th Century Bishop’s Basilica with Marvelous Early Christian Bird Mosaics Opened for Visitors Bulgaria’s Plovdiv in Big Restoration Project with US Funding
The partly restored ruins of the 4th century Bishop’s Basilica, or Great Basilica, of the Ancient Thracian and Roman city of Philipopolis, with its almost fully restored fabulous Early Christian flood mosaics with birds and other motifs, has been opened…
![Ancient Thracian Horse Burial, 'Half a Skeleton' Human Burial from Early Iron Age Found near Bulgaria’s Polski Trambesh](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ancient-thracian-horse-burial-copper-age-orlovets-polski-trambesh-bulgaria-6.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Ancient Thracian Horse Burial, ‘Half a Skeleton’ Human Burial from Early Iron Age Found near Bulgaria’s Polski Trambesh
An Ancient Thracian burial of a horse and a human burial containing only the upper half of a person’s body from the Early Iron Age (ca 1,000 – 500 BC) have been discovered by archaeologists near Orlovets and Polski Trambesh…
![300-Meter-Long Wooden Passage between Inner City, Citadel Gates Discovered in Capital of First Bulgarian Empire Pliska](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/pliska-capital-first-bulgarian-empire-wooden-passage-ancient-bulgars.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
300-Meter-Long Wooden Passage between Inner City, Citadel Gates Discovered in Capital of First Bulgarian Empire Pliska
Archaeologists have discovered the remnants of a 300-meter-long (nearly 1,000 feet) wooden passage which connected gates of the inner city and the citadel of Pliska, the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire between 680 and 893 AD, alongside other newly…
![‘Earliest Dispersal of Modern Humans’ in Eurasia’s Mid-Latitudes, Regular Mixing with Neanderthals Revealed by 46,000-Year-Old Remains from Bulgaria’s Bacho Kiro Cave](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bach-kiro-cave-bulgaria-paleolithic-neanderthal-prehistoric-people-europe-3.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
‘Earliest Dispersal of Modern Humans’ in Eurasia’s Mid-Latitudes, Regular Mixing with Neanderthals Revealed by 46,000-Year-Old Remains from Bulgaria’s Bacho Kiro Cave
An international team of scientists has arrived at crucial conclusions about the earliest spreading of modern humans throughout Eurasia and the Americas and about their mixing with Neanderthals in the Upper Paleolithic based on years of research of human remains…
![Ancient Bulgar Strap Decorations, Dugouts from Medieval Bulgarian Empire Found in Debnevo Fortress near Troyan](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/debnevo-fortress-middle-ages-late-antiquity-bulgarian-empire-dugouts-ancient-bulgar-decorations-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Ancient Bulgar Strap Decorations, Dugouts from Medieval Bulgarian Empire Found in Debnevo Fortress near Troyan
A wide range of archaeological structures and artifacts with a dating range from 5,000 BC until the 14th century AD – including Ancient Bulgar strap decorations and dugouts from the time of the medieval Bulgarian Empire – have been discovered…
![Wooden Coffin Burials, Glass Jewels Discovered in Vast Medieval Necropolis near Bulgaria’s Radnevo](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/12th-century-medieval-necropolis-glass-jewels-radnevo-bulgaria-burials-13.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Wooden Coffin Burials, Glass Jewels Discovered in Vast Medieval Necropolis near Bulgaria’s Radnevo
A large number of glass jewels and remains of wooden coffins in some of the burials among dozens of newly excavated graves have been discovered by archaeologists in a large necropolis from the 12th century, the High Middle Ages, near…
![6,500-Year-Old Full Set of Vessels, Including Zoomorphic One, Gold Bead from World’s Oldest Found in Prehistoric Settlement Mound near Bulgaria’s Pomorie](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/prehistory-copper-age-settlement-mound-poroy-pomorie-bulgaria-black-sea-coast.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
6,500-Year-Old Full Set of Vessels, Including Zoomorphic One, Gold Bead from World’s Oldest Found in Prehistoric Settlement Mound near Bulgaria’s Pomorie
A full set of 21 prehistoric pottery vessels, including a remarkable zoomorphic vessel, and a gold bead which is among the oldest gold items in the world, have been discovered in a Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper Age) settlement mound from the…
![3,000-Year-Old Bird-Shaped Vessel Placed in Burial Urn Found in Bulgaria’s Baley in Crucial Thracian Bronze Age Necropolis](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bronze-age-ancient-thrace-bird-shaped-vessel-encrusted-pottery-urns-baley-bulgaria-6.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
3,000-Year-Old Bird-Shaped Vessel Placed in Burial Urn Found in Bulgaria’s Baley in Crucial Thracian Bronze Age Necropolis
Archaeologists have discovered 15 new graves from the 2nd millennium BC, the Middle Bronze Age and the Late Bronze Age, near the town of Baley on the Danube, Vidin District, in Northwest Bulgaria, in a necropolis from the earliest Ancient…
![Fine Marbles in 14 Different Colors from Constantine the Great’s Danube Bridge Opening in 328 AD Found in Roman City Ulpia Oescus in North Bulgaria](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ulpia-oescus-roman-city-constantine-the-great-marbles-danube-bridge-4.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Fine Marbles in 14 Different Colors from Constantine the Great’s Danube Bridge Opening in 328 AD Found in Roman City Ulpia Oescus in North Bulgaria
Archaeologists have discovered a total of 14 different kinds of highly sophisticated colorful marbles used in lavish wall decorations of a grand hall in the huge Roman city of Ulpia Oescus in North Bulgaria, and believe they most likely had…
![120 Ritual Pits in 7,000-Years-Old ‘Pit Field’ Found in Northeast Bulgaria, Prehistoric Bull Figurines Remarkable](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/prehistory-ritual-pits-field-northeast-bulgaria-bull-figurines.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
120 Ritual Pits in 7,000-Years-Old ‘Pit Field’ Found in Northeast Bulgaria, Prehistoric Bull Figurines Remarkable
A field of hundreds of prehistoric ritual pits from the 6th millennium BC, i.e. the Late Neolithic (New Stone Age) has been discovered and excavated near the towns of Kovachevets and Popovo in Northeast Bulgaria, yielding numerous prehistoric artifacts including…
![Archaeologist Figures Out Thracian Name of Roman Danube City Sexaginta Prista, Bulgaria’s Ruse](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Ruse-Thrace-Roman-Empire-Danube-Bulgaria-Plestrodava-2-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Archaeologist Figures Out Thracian Name of Roman Danube City Sexaginta Prista, Bulgaria’s Ruse
The Ancient Thracian name and thus the earliest name of today’s Danube city of Ruse in Northeast Bulgaria, the successor of the Roman Empire city of Sexaginta Prista, was probably Plestrodava, a Bulgarian archaeologist hypothesizes.
![3 Newly Found Gold Rings Reveal Antiquity, Middle Ages Life in Danube Region of Northeast Bulgaria](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/gold-rings-danube-river-antiquity-middle-ages-bulgaria-5.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
3 Newly Found Gold Rings Reveal Antiquity, Middle Ages Life in Danube Region of Northeast Bulgaria
Archaeologists have discovered a total of three gold rings from the Antiquity, High Middle Ages, and Late Middle Ages in diverse archaeological sites in the Danube region of Ruse in today’s Northeast Bulgaria.
![3 Gold Coins from Byzantine Empire after 1071 Battle of Manzikert Found in Bulgaria’s Lom in Almus, Lomgrad Ruins](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/byzantine-empire-gold-coins-michael-vii-doucas-lom-bulgaria-almus.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
3 Gold Coins from Byzantine Empire after 1071 Battle of Manzikert Found in Bulgaria’s Lom in Almus, Lomgrad Ruins
Archaeologists have found a small hoard of gold coins from the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) minted after the emblematic Battle of Manzikert in 1071 under Emperor Michael VII Ducas during excavations of the Ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine city…
![80 Newly Found Dugouts Offer Glimpse into 9th Century Rural Life in First Bulgarian Empire](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/first-bulgarian-empire-village-dugouts-middle-ages-8.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
80 Newly Found Dugouts Offer Glimpse into 9th Century Rural Life in First Bulgarian Empire
Archaeologists have discovered a 9th century AD village from the time of the First Bulgarian Empire (632/680 – 1018 AD) near the town of Gradishte, Shumen District, in Northeast Bulgaria, with some 80 dugouts offering a glimpse into the life…
![Rare 5th Century AD Late Roman Marble Table Discovered in Petrich Kale Fortress near Bulgaria’s Varna](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/byzantine-late-roman-marble-table-petrich-kale-fortress-bulgaria.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Rare 5th Century AD Late Roman Marble Table Discovered in Petrich Kale Fortress near Bulgaria’s Varna
Archaeologists have discovered a beautiful white marble table from the 4th – 5th century AD, i.e. the Late Roman and Early Byzantine period, during excavations in one of the towers of the Petrich Kale Fortress near the Black Sea city…
![Unknown Medieval Settlement from Second Bulgarian Empire, Bronze Age Settlement Discovered near Danube City Vidin](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/medieval-settlement-second-bulgarian-empire-vidin-danube-river-2.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Unknown Medieval Settlement from Second Bulgarian Empire, Bronze Age Settlement Discovered near Danube City Vidin
A previously unknown settlement from the Second Bulgarian Empire in the High Middle Ages and a layer from an Early Bronze Age settlement from the 3rd millennium BC have been discovered near the Danube city of Vidin in Northwest Bulgaria.
![Bizarre 3rd Millennium BC ‘Trojan Cups’ Imported from Troy Become November 2020 ‘Exhibit of the Month’ in Bulgaria’s National Museum of Archaeology](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/trojan-cups-homer-illiad-bulgaria-early-bronze-age.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Bizarre 3rd Millennium BC ‘Trojan Cups’ Imported from Troy Become November 2020 ‘Exhibit of the Month’ in Bulgaria’s National Museum of Archaeology
A couple of bizarrely shaped ceramic cups from the 3rd millennium BC, or the Early Bronze Age, which are believed to have originated in ancient Troy, and are known as the Trojan Cups, have been declared “exhibit(s)” of the month…
![Early Thracian, Roman, Medieval Settlements, Athena Statuette Found in Rescue Digs by Bulgarian Coal Mining Company](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/athena-statuette-bronze-roman-empire-radnevo-bulgaria-coal-mining-2.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Early Thracian, Roman, Medieval Settlements, Athena Statuette Found in Rescue Digs by Bulgarian Coal Mining Company
Three different ancient settlements – an Early Thracian settlement, a town from the time of the Roman Empire, and an Early Byzantine and medieval Bulgarian settlement – have been discovered in rescue excavations in three locations near the town of…
![Archaeologists Find Holy Well of Early Christian Monastery on Top of 2,500-Year-Old Apollo Temple on Bulgaria’s St. Ivan Island](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/holy-well-spring-early-christian-monastery-apollo-temple-bulgaria-sozopol-17.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Archaeologists Find Holy Well of Early Christian Monastery on Top of 2,500-Year-Old Apollo Temple on Bulgaria’s St. Ivan Island
Archaeologists have discovered the 1,500-year-old holy well, or ayazmo, of the Early Christian monastery on the St. Ivan Island off the coast of Bulgaria’s Black Sea town of Sozopol, which was built on top of an Ancient Greek temple of…
![‘Economic’ Section of 5,000-Year-Old Settlement with а Dozen Kilns Found in Central Bulgarian Valley](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/prehistoric-bronze-age-settlement-karlovo-kilns-excavations-8.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
‘Economic’ Section of 5,000-Year-Old Settlement with а Dozen Kilns Found in Central Bulgarian Valley
A nearly 5,000-year-old prehistoric settlement, or, rather, its “economic” and production section, with close to a dozen kilns has been discovered by archaeologists in the Karlovo Valley in Central Bulgaria.
!['Pillow' Brick with Gospel of John Inscription in 13th Century Clergyman Grave, Byzantine Gold Threads Found in Medieval Bulgarian Capital Tarnovgrad](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/tsarevets-fortress-veliko-tarnovo-middle-ages-byzantine-gold-2.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
‘Pillow’ Brick with Gospel of John Inscription in 13th Century Clergyman Grave, Byzantine Gold Threads Found in Medieval Bulgarian Capital Tarnovgrad
A senior medieval clergyman’s grave from the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire, possibly even one of the patriarchs of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, containing a brick with an inscription quoting the Gospel of John, has been discovered during the…
![8 Years after Theft of St. John the Baptist Relics in Bulgaria’s Sliven, Finder Laments Unresolved Case](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/st-john-the-baptist-relics-reliquary-stolen-theft-church-popkonstantinov.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
8 Years after Theft of St. John the Baptist Relics in Bulgaria’s Sliven, Finder Laments Unresolved Case
The case of the theft of a particle from the holy relics of St. John the Baptist committed in the city of Sliven back in 2012, less than 2 years after the relics’ discovery on a Black Sea island, has…
![Mouthless Prehistoric ‘Alien’ Mask Mixing Human, Animal Features Found in Salt Pit Settlement Mound in Bulgaria’s Provadiya](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/prehistoric-town-europe-first-provadiya-solnitsata-salt-pit-bulgaria-4.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Mouthless Prehistoric ‘Alien’ Mask Mixing Human, Animal Features Found in Salt Pit Settlement Mound in Bulgaria’s Provadiya
A bizarre prehistoric clay mask or a figurine lacking a mouth but featuring both human and animal traits and resembling an “alien” from a sci-fi movie, which dates back to the end of the 5th millennium BC, has been discovered…
![Skeletons from Medieval Christian Necropolis Found on Top of Ruins of Ancient Marcianopolis in Bulgaria’s Devnya](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/devnya-marcianople-medieval-necropolis-christian-skeletons-bulgaria-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Skeletons from Medieval Christian Necropolis Found on Top of Ruins of Ancient Marcianopolis in Bulgaria’s Devnya
Three skeletons from what appears to be a medieval necropolis have been discovered during rescue archaeological excavations at the ruins of the major Roman city of Marcianopolis (Marcianople) in today’s town of Devnya in Northeast Bulgaria.
![Prehistoric People Owned 40-Million-Year-Old Sea Urchin Fossil, Carpathian Obsidian, Neolithic Settlement in Bulgaria’s Ohoden Pushed Back to Mesolithic](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/prehistory-settlement-sea-urchin-fossil-neolithic-mesolithi-ohoden-bulgaria-6.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Prehistoric People Owned 40-Million-Year-Old Sea Urchin Fossil, Carpathian Obsidian, Neolithic Settlement in Bulgaria’s Ohoden Pushed Back to Mesolithic
A string of exciting and mysterious finds have been discovered during the 2020 archaeological excavations of the Ohoden Neolithic settlement near the city of Vratsa in Northwest Bulgaria – including blades of obsidian from the Western Carpathian Mountains in today’s…
![Massive Hexagonal Tower Keep, Horn Workshop Excavated in Medieval Fortress Rusocastro in Southeast Bulgaria](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/rusocastro-fortress-middle-ages-bulgaria-second-bulgarian-empire-keep-3.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Massive Hexagonal Tower Keep, Horn Workshop Excavated in Medieval Fortress Rusocastro in Southeast Bulgaria
Archaeologists have excavated in full a massive hexagonal tower keep, which towered in the 13th-14th century over the medieval Bulgarian and Byzantine fortress of Rusocastro in today’s Southeast Bulgaria.