Pliska

Archaeological excavations on the newly constructed section of the Hemus Highway near Shumen impressed Prime Minister Boyko Borisov with the skulls found there, but archaeologists have come across a far more valuable find.

Around 15 new monuments this year will become part of the writer's alley in the Pliska Cyrillic Yard. This was reported in an interview by Darik with Karen Aleksanian, who set up the complex four years ago. Almost 40 busts of artists from different countries who have written in the Cyrillic alphabet.

In the last days, 220 new electronic boards were installed in the capital, BGNews reported. There are at the stops of the Orlov Most, Pliska, Regional Hospital and Lions Most.

The works to erect the Great Basilica in Pliska, the first capital of the first Bulgarian state founded in Southeast Europe, will receive additional funding, the government has decided.

The cabinet has thus increased the overall budget for construction to BGN 1.5 M in public money.

The United States Embassy in Sofia has announced the its security message distributed to US citizens on Wednesday is "no longer in effect".

On Facebook, the Embassy praises the "proactive measures taken by the Government of Bulgaria in response to threat concerns".

There is no real threat to the life of citizens in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, the Interior Ministry's Chief Secretary, Georgi Kostov, has said.

The US Embassy says it has received information of a "possible threat against an unspecified bus line or bus lines" in Bulgaria's capital Sofia.

It has advised US citizens to avoid the area of what has been known for years as Hotel Pliska (Boulevard Tsarigradsko Shose 87).

Bulgarian archaeologists are to concentrate their efforts on uncovering the acropolis of the ancient Thracian city of Perperikon in the forthcoming months.

This was announced by archaeologist Nikolay Ovcharov in an interview for Focus news agency, who claimed that this year would be decisive for the completion of Perperikon.

During excavations in the medieval fortress Agatopolis in Bulgaria's Black Sea town of Ahtopol, archaeologists have discovered a gate resembling those in Preslav, Pliska and Drustur.

The archaeological team of Mariela Inkova uncovered a network of secret tunnels under the first capital of Bulgaria - Pliska, reports BGNES.

The archaeologists explore one of the entrances - a wooden structure, which survived a fire and the passage of time.