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Iron Age necropolis near Strouma motorway in Bulgaria destroyed

August 7, 2013August 7, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, motorways

Part of an early Iron Age necropolis in Doupnitsa district in southwestern Bulgaria, in the immediate vicinity of the recently-launched

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Roman wall unearthed in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv

July 26, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

A Roman wall, estimated to date from the third to the fifth century CE, has been unearthed in the centre

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Thracian temple, sanctuary of Zeus and Hera found in Bulgaria’s Sredna Gora

July 22, 2013July 23, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have found a Thracian temple and a sanctuary of Zeus and Hera in Sredna Gora in the

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Leisure 

The road less travelled in the Rhodope

July 5, 2013May 10, 2024 Gabriel Hershman archaeology

Fleeing an unseasonably cool and wet July day in Sofia, we headed south to Kurdjali on an organised tour* –

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian archaeologists given more time to survey Via Diagonalis site

June 24, 2013June 24, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, motorways

Bulgarian archaeologists would be given an additional month for digs on the site of the Roman Via Diagonalis remains near

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The Odeon archaeological site, Plovdiv. Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Bulgaria’s 2013 season underway with new discoveries

June 14, 2013October 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

The archaeology season for Bulgaria is underway, with 2013 already seeing new discoveries. Among these are the finding of a

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Bulgaria 

Archaeological dig at Bulgaria’s Perperikon to begin on schedule

June 13, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Bulgarian archaeologist Nikolai Ovcharov said on June 13 that the summer digs at the Perperikon site would go as scheduled

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Bulgarian ‘vampire’ skeleton set to return home

May 31, 2013June 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

A year after archaeological digs in the Black Sea town of Sozopol yielded a well-preserved male skeleton buried with a

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Thracian exhibit at archaeological museum in Sofia

April 9, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

The archaeological museum in Bulgarian capital city Sofia is exhibiting several pieces of weaponry and armour attributed to Thracian king

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