Bulgaria
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From the Sofia Globe: Archaeologists working on digs at the Roman Forum and Odeon sites in Bulgaria’s second city of Plovdiv have unearthed a number of interesting finds from various periods and the city now wants to expand excavations at the Forum site. The Forum site, near the current modern-era central Post Office, dates from…
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From the Sofia Globe: An ancient incense vessel in the shape of a bull’s head, estimated to date from the sixth century BCE, has been found by archaeologists on St Kirik island off the Bulgarian Black Sea town of Sozopol. The discovery was made on the last hour of the last day of the 2012…
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Another tantalizingly brief one from Bulgaria … this time from the Focus news agency: “An ancient Roman bridge was found over Osam River by the Sostra stronghold near the town of Troyan”, archeologist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ivan Hristov, deputy-director of the National Historical Museum said for FOCUS News Agency . The discovery was made today.…
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Another tantalizingly brief item from Novinite: Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a Thracian settlement during the first ever excavations in the town of Tsarevo on the southern Black Sea coast. The team is led by Milen Nikolov, an archaeologist from the Regional History Museum in the Black Sea city of Burgas. The settlement is very close…
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Another one from Focus Fen which seems to have lost something in translation: “A construction inscription in ancient Greek language was discovered during the archaeological excavations in the western part of the Roman Forum in Bulgaria’s second biggest city of Plovdiv. Head of the archaeological team Elena Kisyakova announced the news for Radio FOCUS –…
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