![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…
![Discovery of 8,000-Year-Old Veiled Mother Goddess near Bulgaria’s Vidin ‘Pushes Back’ Neolithic Revolution in Europe](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Mother-Goddess-Head-Figurine-Neolithic-Settlement-Northwest-Bulgaria-9.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Discovery of 8,000-Year-Old Veiled Mother Goddess near Bulgaria’s Vidin ‘Pushes Back’ Neolithic Revolution in Europe
Part of a ceramic figurine depicting the head of the Mother Goddess, the earliest deity of Europe’s first agriculturalists, has been discovered by archaeologists in an 8,000-year-old Early Neolithic prehistoric settlement near the town of Mayor Uzunovo, Vidin District, close…
![13th Century Woman Buried in Bulgaria’s Rahovets Fortress Had 12,000-Year-Old Gene Mutation of Europe’s Last Hunter-Gatherers](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Rahovets-Fortress-Iron-Age-Late-Antiquity-Middle-Ages-Bulgaria-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
13th Century Woman Buried in Bulgaria’s Rahovets Fortress Had 12,000-Year-Old Gene Mutation of Europe’s Last Hunter-Gatherers
A 13th century woman, whose grave was discovered in 2017 in the Antiquity and medieval Rahovets Fortress in Central North Bulgaria, has turned to carry a 12,000-year-old gene mutation from Europe’s last nomads, hunter-gatherers who wandered through the continent as…
!['Archaeology Travel' Founder Thomas Dowson: Bulgaria’s Is New Cultural Tourism Destination for the English-Speaking West](https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20150617_085500.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
‘Archaeology Travel’ Founder Thomas Dowson: Bulgaria’s Is New Cultural Tourism Destination for the English-Speaking West
ArchaeologyinBulgaria.com has interviewed Thomas Dowson, a UK-based archaeologist and founder of Archaeology Travel, a service specializing in cultural tourism and international guided tours. Dowson recently explored Bulgaria as a cultural tourism destination, and his travel report “Move Over, Italy &…