A sword which is more than 3,000 years old, and dates back to the Late Bronze Age has been discovered by accident in the county of Buzau (Buzău) in the southeastern part of Romania.
The “Tarnovgrad – the Spirit of Millennial Bulgaria” Museum Park in the city of Veliko Tarnovo in Central North Bulgaria, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396/1422), has unveiled two new models of Bulgarian landmarks: the Madara Horseman and…
An unknown Byzantine coastal city located on the Asian side of Istanbul, the former Constantinople, has been discovered during the restoration of a historic train station in Turkey.
The building of what is believed to be a 1,800-year-old Ancient Roman library, and the oldest library to have ever been founded in Germany, has been discovered in Cologne.
A “monumental” Roman Era tomb from the 3rd century AD which most probably belongs to an Ancient Thracian aristocrat has been discovered by archaeologists excavating the Maltepe Burial Mound near the town of Manole, outside of the city of Plovdiv,…
A rare find, a lead seal of Yolande of Montferrat, Empress Irene of the Byzantine Empire, the second wife of Byzantine Emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus (r. 1282 – 1328), has been discovered by archaeologists excavating the medieval Bulgarian fortress Lyutitsa near…
The first International Mission comprising scholars from six different countries has started its archaeological research of the major but little explored Late Roman and Early Byzantine city of Zaldapa in Northeast Bulgaria under a five-year project.
Mysterious ruins containing an elaborately patterned floor built with colored marbles from North Africa have been discovered in Italy’s capital Rome perplexing the archaeologists.
Two small gold-coated mosaic cubes, also known as tesserae, from the Early Christian period are the most interesting find from the 2018 summer excavations in the ancient Black Sea town of Agathopolis near today’s Bulgarian town of Ahtopol, according to…
A paper publushed in the Bulgarian e-Journal of Archaeology reveals the story of the discovery of the most recently found Ancient Thracian gold treasure in Bulgaria – the Primorsko Gold Treasure, which was dug up in 2016 in a burial…
An Ancient Roman grave stele “with a very interesting iconography” which, however, remained unfinished and was never used has been discovered by archaeologists during excavations in the Kovachevsko Kale Fortress near Popovo in Northeast Bulgaria.
Mysterious Ancient Roman shafts found near the Roman colony of Augusta Raurica in Northern Switzerland were likely used as an ancient “snow fridge” by the Romans, according to Swiss archaeologists testing the idea.
An intact Ancient Roman inscription in Latin dating back to the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161 – 180 AD) has been found by archaeologists during the ongoing excavations in the large Ancient Thracian and Roman city of Kabyle.
Bulgaria’s Cabinet has reclaimed the management rights for Ulpia Oescus, a colony of Ancient Rome and one of the most important cities of the Roman Empire in today’s Bulgaria.
The “Tarnovgrad – the Spirit of Millennial Bulgaria” Museum Park in the city of Veliko Tarnovo in Central North Bulgaria, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396/1422), has unveiled five new models of Bulgarian landmarks.
An extremely odd prehistoric artifact found in a Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper Age) settlement from 5,000 BC near Telish in Northwest Bulgaria, which has conditionally been known as a clay model of a “rocket” or a “space ship”, has no archaeological…
Ventsislav (“Ventsi”) Gergov is a Bulgarian archaeologist. He was born in Iskar, Pleven District, in 1946. He majored in archaeology at Veliko Tarnovo University “St. Cyril and St. Methodius”, and joined the team of the Pleven Regional Museum of History…
Ventsislav (“Ventsi”) Gergov is a Bulgarian archaeologist. He was born in Iskar, Pleven District, in 1946. He majored in archaeology at Veliko Tarnovo University “St. Cyril and St. Methodius”, and joined the team of the Pleven Regional Museum of History…
The Regional Museum of History in the Black Sea city of Burgas has announced the start and objectives of the 2018 archaeological excavations of the Rusocastro Fortress, the largest medieval fortress and castle in Southeast Bulgaria.
“The Aqueducts in Bulgaria’s Lands, 2nd-4th century AD”, a new book exploring the aqueducts of a total of 19 Ancient Roman cities, including that of major city of Nicopolis ad Istrum, is to presented in the northern Bulgarian city of…
Bulgaria’s National Museum of History in Sofia has announced it is extending its exhibition (more photos here) showcasing gold jewels and the goldsmiths’ art from the Bulgarian lands from the 15th until the 19th century.
Bulgaria’s most recently discovered Ancient Thracian gold treasure – the Primorsko Gold Treasure found in 2016 – has returned to its home, the Museum of History in the Black Sea town of Primorsko.
Over 11,000 ancient coins as well as dozens of archaeological artifacts have been seized by customs officers at the Lesovo Crossing Point on Bulgaria’s border with Turkey in a car entering Bulgaria and the EU during a smuggling attempt.
Bulgaria and Bulgarians around the world have celebrated on May 24, 2018, the Day of St. Cyril and St. Methodius, i.e. the Day of the Bulgarian Alphabet (more widely known internationally as the Cyrillic Alphabet) and Bulgarian Culture, one of…
The “Tarnovgrad – the Spirit of Millennial Bulgaria” Museum Park in the city of Veliko Tarnovo in Central North Bulgaria, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396/1422), which features a total of 52 scale models of Bulgarian archaeological, historical,…
The oldest Ancient Greek art relic in Slovakia and its region has been discovered at a Celtic sacrificial site near the northwestern town of Slatina nad Bebravou, namely, bronze shoulder boards decorated with reliefs from what was the breastplate of…
A new exhibition entitled “Argonauts of Freedom – Garibaldi and the Bulgarians” tells the story of 19th century Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi and his influence on Bulgarians fighting for Bulgaria’s national liberation from the Ottoman Empire.
A sizable but now destroyed and/or sunken island – likely the size of Greece’s Aegean island of Thasos – existed in the Black Sea off the southern Black Sea coast of today’s Bulgaria but disappeared as a result of natural…
The shell of a second tortoise have been found inside the Ancient Roman tomb, which has recently been discovered on the campus of the Medical University in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, after the original tortoise discovery baffled the…
On Saturday, May 12, 2018, ArchaeologyinBulgaria.com has reached the milestone of 5,000 fans on Facebook!
The Justinian Plague of 541 – 542 AD, which may have killed up to 25 million people, likely originated in Asia, not Egypt, and is linked to the migrations of the Huns, a new study has found.
First Ever Traces of Roman Military Presence in Poland Discovered by Archaeologists in Kujawy Region
The first ever evidence of the presence of the Ancient Roman military, i.e. the Roman Empire, on the territory of today’s Poland has been discovered by archaeologists in the Kujawy (Kuyavia) Region the in central part of the country.
A rich Ancient Roman mansion from the 3rd – 4th century AD has been discovered near the town of Gurkovo in Eastern Bulgaria, some 29 kilometers (18 miles) from the major Roman city of Augusta Traiana in today’s Stara Zagora,…
The remnants of German-made Messerschmitt fighter from the Bulgarian Air Force during World War II which was shot down by Allied aircraft during a bombing raid over Sofia has been discovered by chance in a swamp near the Borovets Ski…
The two foundations of what appears to have been a huge triumphal arch built by the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD in the ancient city of Philipopolis (Trimontium) has been discovered by archaeologists carrying out rescue excavations in…
