Thracians

An Ancient Thracian fortress from the Late Hellenistic Period (2th-1st century BC) has been discovered by archaeologists near the town of Izvor, Burgas District, in Southeast Bulgaria, after the site had been damaged by a treasure hunter.

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A grave of an Ancient Thracian warrior from the 4th-3rd century BC whose funeral inventory contains gold plated ceramic beads has been discovered by archaeologists in a burial mound in Silihlyar, an area near Bulgaria's Black Sea resort of Primorsko.

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Archaeologists have found and excavated in full a large Ancient Roman building known as tribunorium, i.e. the residence of the Roman military officers in the Ancient Thracian and Roman city of Kabile located near the city of Yambol in Southeast Bulgaria.

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The Balkan Capital of Roses - Kazanlak, located in the geographic center of Bulgaria and bearing a thousand-year history with the Thracian Kings Valley, is among the nominees for the third edition of the Balkan Tourism Industry Awards 2017. The ceremony will take place on 5.12. 2017 at 20:00 at Premier Best Western Hotel Sofia, VIP organizers announced.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,300-year-old facility for iron production and a provincial governor's residence - which appear to have been used by Emperor Alexander the Great and his successor in Thrace, Lysimachus - underneath what originally seemed like an Ancient Thracian burial mound located near the town of Knyazhevo, Topolovgrad Municipality, in Southeast Bulgaria.

Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that an excavation team from Bulgaria's National Museum of History has uncovered parts of an ancient silver wreath in a burial mound located near Bulgaria's Dyadovo Settlement Mound.

A sophisticated Ancient Roman gold necklace from the 4th century AD has been discovered by a team of archaeologists excavating the Ancient Thracian, Greek, and Roman city of Heraclea Sintica, the ruins are located near the town of Petrich in Southwest Bulgaria.

Bulgarian Borovsko treasure has been transported to Norway where it will take part in an international exhibition "Legends in Gold. Thracian Treasures from Bulgaria", reported BNT. 

The opening of the exhibition will take place in Bryggen Museum in the town of Bergen on 1st of September. It is financed under the Norwegian Cooperation programme.

Archaeologists in the eastern Romanian region of Buzau have hailed the discovery of nine well-preserved tombs dating back to the Bronze Age, at site already known to hold a city built during the North Thracian Dacian era, long before the Roman conquest.

Bulgarian archaeological expedition at the ancient Thracian city of Perperikon (near the city of Kardzhali, South Bulgaria) will try to find the largest Early Christian monastery in the Rhodope Mountains, Professor Nikolay Ovcharov, the leader of the research, said on 28th of June.