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The Bulgarian government is granting 100 000 leva (about 50 000 euro) to enable the continuation of archaeological excavations at the Heraclea Sintica site, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on […]
Excavations at Bulgaria’s Rusokastro Fortress site have revealed three silver Venetian coins in very good condition, the Regional Historical Museum in the Black Sea city of Bourgas said. These are […]
Ahead of a scheduled official briefing by Sofia’s deputy mayor and an archaeologist, some media had reported the finding of a Roman-era wall in the centre of the Bulgarian capital […]
A coin from the time of Tsar Ivan Assen II, ruler of Bulgaria from 1218 to 1241, has been found at the ancient sacred site of Perperikon, archaeologist Professor Nikolai […]
The mayor of Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv, Ivan Totev, was on hand on July 18 as restored ancient columns were put in place at the Roman Forum site near the […]
Archaeologists working at the Episcopal Basilica site in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have found a large stone slab, estimated to date from the third century, inscribed in Ancient Greek with […]
Remnants of a church estimated to date from the end of the First Bulgarian Kingdom – about the 11th century – have been found at the Misionis fortress site near […]
The summer 2019 archaeological dig season has begun at the Maltepe mound site near the village of Manole in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv district, with the team’s goal this year to find […]
A fragment with an inscription in Ancient Greek, dating from the first decades of the second century CE, has been found at the Great Basilica site in Bulgaria’s second city […]
The torrential rains that have hit Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv in recent days have flooded the ancient Forum site at Tsentralen Square, local media said on June 3. The downpours […]
