The Thracian funeral burial mounds (tumuli) in the archaeological reserve of “Sborianovo”, near Isperih are built as a mirror projection of the starry sky and hides an astronomical information, older than the Babylonian one.  This hypothesis is proposed by the 76-year-old historian and ex-director of the Isperih museum – Iordan Stephanov.

The disposition of these tumuli recreates the constellations of the visible part of the sky from our latitude: Ursa major, Camelopardalis (giraffe), Auriga, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Lacerta, Cepheus and Draco (dragon). The size of the tumuli corresponds to the brightness of the stars.

The hypothesis of “Sborianovo”, being a huge ancient astronomical complex, is sustained by the so-called “Mysterious stone” found in the atrium of the central chamber of the King mound in “Sveshtari”.  According to the astronomer prof. Vladimier Dermendjiev, from the astronomical observatory of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the stone hides an ancient astronomical information.

Nobody can explain the purpose of building this astronomical chart, but the precision of copying the sky with it’s constellations speaks about the exceptional geodesic skills of the Thracian and their knowledge of the outer space.

The star map of “Sborianovo” is much more complicated than the representation of the constellation “Pleiades”, founded in January this year, in Val-d’Aoste, Italy.

According to the historical Iordan Stephanov, the biggest mystery is how the architect has planed his conception to be executed for the further three centuries.

Priest Stoiko Vladislavov (born as he describes at the work “passional” at 1739), receiving later the name Sofroniy Vrachanski as born in Kotel at the family of trader. He is learning later at monastery school at his born town slavic and greek monastery books. He is working as dealer in frieze at this period, but his aspiration to spirit entertaining become bigger.

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An almost 7 000 year old stone tablet was found in Bulgaria, which bears carvings that might turn out to be one of the .

“These signs are unique and apparently bear a meaning” Nikolai Ovcharov, the archaeologist who found it, told a press conference. Ovcharov said he had received the tablet from a private collector who had unearthed it 20 years ago. The collector asked to remain anonymous, because he risked criminal prosecution for looting or criminal possession of antiquities. The tablet, about three inches, carries five distinct signs each made up of two elements, Ovcharov said.

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The creator of the Slavic alphabet and the first translator of liturgical books from Greek into Old-Bulgarian was Constantine, the Philosopher, better known by his name in religion, Cyril, adopted on his death bed. Constantine-Cyril was born in Salonika (now Thessaloniki in Greece). In 863 he and his brother Methodius were sent by the Byzantine emperor Michael III to convert the Western Slavs to Christianity and arrange that the divine service in Greater Moravia is performed in their native tongue. This was done at the request of Rostislav, the prince of Greater Moravia, whose possessions comprised the lands of now the Czech Republic, Slovakia, part of Slovenia and part of Hungary, at that time inhabited by Slav population.

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