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Rahovets Fortress Was Ancient Thracian City Zikideva, Bulgarian Archaeologist...
Some of the artifacts discovered in the recent archaeological excavations of the ancient and medieval Rahovets Fortress near Bulgaria’s Gorna Oryahovitsa. Photo: Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality The...
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Bulgaria’s Government Grants ‘Monument of Culture’ Status to Ancient,...
The ruins of the ancient and medieval fortress Rahovets located in Central Northern Bulgaria. Photo: Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality Bulgaria’s Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov has signed a decree...
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Archaeologists Find Early Bronze Age Home inside Ancient and Medieval...
These ceramic vessels discovered in a home found inside the ancient and medieval fortress Rahovets near Bulgaria’s Gorna Oryahovisa have led experts to date the home to the Early Bronze Age. Photo:...
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Bulgaria’s Gorna Oryahovitsa Starts 2016 Excavations of Ancient, Medieval...
Archaeologists Ilian Petrakiev (right) and Maya Ivanova on location at the Rahovets Fortress. Photo: Gorna Oryahovitsa Municipality An archaeological team has started the 2016 summer excavations of the...
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Archaeologists Find Grave of One of Last Senior Clergymen of Medieval...
Archaeologists Hitko Vachev (front) and Iliyan Petrakiev (back) showing the newly discovered grave of a senior clergyman in Bulgaria’s Veliko Tarnovo. Photo: Yantra Dnes daily The grave of a person who...
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Archaeologists Find Medieval Marketplace of Rahovets Fortress near Bulgaria’s...
The Rahovets Fortress, a major Early Byzantine and medieval Bulgarian stronghold, which was inhabited as early as the Bronze Age, is located on mountainous terrain near Bulgaria’s Gorna Oryahovitsa and...
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Archaeologist Discovers Ancient Mirrors in Roman Villa Estate with Ceramics...
A total five lead frames from Ancient Roman mirrors have been discovered in a newly excavated 2nd-3rd century AD building near Bulgaria’s Pavlikeni. Photo: Archaeologist Kalin Chakarov A set of five...
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Archaeologists Find 3,000-Year-Old Likely Thracian Child Burial in Bulgaria’s...
An aerial view of an excavated section of the Rahovets Fortress in Central North Bulgaria. Photo: Gorna Oryahovitsa Museum of History A 3,000-year-old child burial, most likely Ancient Thracian, has...
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13th Century Woman Buried in Bulgaria’s Rahovets Fortress Had 12,000-Year-Old...
An aerial shot of some of the ruins of the ancient and medieval Rahovets Fortress. Only a small fraction of them has been excavated, and they are mostly covered with soil and vegetation, are located on...
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‘Pillow’ Brick with Gospel of John Inscription in 13th Century Clergyman...
The brick discovered beneath the head of a senior medieval Bulgarian clergyman in a 13th century grave in a monastery of Tarnovgrad, today’s Veliko Tarnovo, has an inscription in Old Bulgarian citing...
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