Ancient warehouse were found from archaeologists after excavations at the antique town of the Thracians Perperikon. Professor Nikolai Ovcharov and his colleagues has found four, completely preserved jars with stony lids and capacity between 160 and 200 liters. The vessels are found at culture stratum from the IV th century a.c.
” Probably at the jars has been preserved wine, because there is red precipitation on the walls and any soil is missing, which is typical for vessels used for food preserving ” adds Professor Ovcharov. The participators at the studies has cleaned the water depot at the top of Perperikon, which is six meters deep. The size of this ancient reservoir is 12 to 6 meters and capacity of 270 000 liters water. By Nikolai Ovcharov’s words this water depot is the biggest at the Balkan peninsula.
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