After examination and researches of all historic sources for the “saint Ivan Rilski” chearch at Veliko Turnovo, the archaeologists Hitko Vachev and professor Nikolay Ovcharov are going to succeed with their 20 years dream- to find where exact this building is. The start of this project has been given during the previous week at the Veliko Turnovo Asenov quarter. Director of the regional historic museum has told that the equip has been into a need to dispose of 200 cubic meters with garbages for being able to start the excavation . All the peoples at this quarter knows this place as dung-hill. Some of the early local citizens already knew that there has been situated church long time ago. The construction of this church was found just for about 30 meters distance to the “Saint Peter and Pavel” church. Until now, excepting the complex holy 40 martyrs” at the Asenov quarter there are almost zero number of excavations. By the words of the local archaeologists this territory is undeservedly disregarded.
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Stone made lamp was found during excavation works at the stronghold Trimamium, Rouse municipality. The team, Vurbin Vurbanov and Deyan Dragoev are working at the area of than bigancient building, which is the colonade. The archaeologists have found also umbo - the middle part of shield, made by bronze, bronze balance, trade seals, many iron objects, announce the director of the regional museum Nikolay Nenov. New moment at the study for the archeology materials is related to the religion - there was found part of consecrated slab stone as well as part of altar table, which has been part of the equipment at the basilica at Trimamium.
Exceptionally valuable statue of Venus with height of 15 centimeters was found during the excavation works at the Roman castel Trimamium. This was announced by the director of the regional historical museum in Ruse, mister Nikolay Nenov.
That bronze figure was found at pit, dated to the Roman period, where were found 36 coins, dated to I-III century.
By the Archaeologist Vurbin Vurbanov, the statue has been produced at local atelier. The find might be preserved and restored, because it is thick in tarnish.
At the end of August, 2002 Archaeologists with team leader Krasimir Leshtakov discovered new terrain for excavation works at the area of Yabalkovo village, Dimitrovgrad municipality. The excavation team have found female ceramic figure of about 8000 years at fire demolished settlement from the early Neolith. At 2003 the excavation works at the object were restarted, there was found part of cooper slag, dated to the sixth millennium before Christ. Among the finds there are parts of unique vessel in a shape of bull where, by the words of doctor Leshtakov proba
bly has been preserved opium, amulet by very solid rock, that is typical for the eastern Rhodope mountain, cult side-tables and collection of stone tools and implements, used for production of items and instruments.
We got profound information for the pit sanctuary dated to the early iron epoch at the Karabiuliuk area, near Yabalkovo village by Milena Tonkova and Rumen Mikov for the Archeology report of 2004. At the western sector of the excavated terrain they have been into a find with many many materials of the late iron epoch ( fragments of Greek Аmphora, black ceramic as well as some typical for the epoch vessels, made by wheel and hand made. At quarter 25, at the same western sector and depth of about 1 meter the excavation team have found collective find of bronze coins- four of them of Philip II Macedonian, three of Alexander the Great. They have been dеferred for around 323-320 before Christ. Near the end of IV Before Christ is the near period of the earlypostumne alexandricia with king title, that is found at the quarter H 22 at depth 0.55 meters.
At the central sector ( that front upped part of the object - tumulus Karabiuliuk ) are at pawn two drillings with dimensions 5 x 2 meters. At the first one that working team has found vessels by the lately iron epoch and destructions of Neolith building.
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Golden coins in a count of seven , all stamped during the rule of the Byzantine emperors Maurice
(Flavius Mauricius Tiberius) and Heraclius (Flavius Heraclius) were exposed today at Izvorovo, Harmanli municipality.
This meeting is part of the
” Via diagonalis and the Bulgarian Stonehenge “ project. This project is being executed with the Greek municipality Trimono in common at the last year, having the financial support of Phare program. Part of the summary toward the project helped for the archaeological excavation works at the ancient stronghold Castra Rubra near the Izvorovo village, Harmanli municipality.
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Just year after the exploration of the Cybele’s temple near Balchik, the archaeologists Igor Lazarenko, Elina Mircheva and Radostina Encheva have found two statues during excavation works. They both represent Cybele and it is presumed that probably they have been possessed by Aphrodite or Dionysus, relief of Thracian horse rider, another relief of three nymphs, limestone plate with relief illustration of lion also.
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