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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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King’s throne of clay from 6 000 years ago was found at the king’s rock castle Perperikon from the Nikolai Ovcharov’s team. The clay is with four legs, an arched roof back and phallus in the center of the seat. According to mr Ovcharov’s words, that might typify the prelude toward the religious rite of the matrimony.
From this period of the finds at Perperikon there are found seven or eight more objects – idols, religious side-tables, utensil used for opiates, but the throne got no analogue. Just two days before that find, at Perperikon was found golden coin from the first half of the eleventh century, dating to the Mihail third Paflagon era. That coin has never been used and has been preserved into pelvis with analytical balance. At the first side is depicted the effigy of the emperor, at the other is the blessing Jesus Christ. That finds are available now with all other at the exposition at the Historical museum in Kurdjali.

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Villa Armira archeological monuments, Ivailovgrad municipality
During 1964, while building a dam 1.5km southwest of the residential Ivailovgrad district of Ladja, builders happened upon traces of an ancient building. The archeological excavations that followed revealed remains from antiquity of a villa from the period of Roman dominion of the land. It became popular by the name Villa Armira, derived from the name of a small river (a tributary of the Arda River) on whose banks the villa is built.The ancient Villa Armira is an impressive complex of residential and economic buildings on a territory of 2,200m2. The residential area covers 978m2, embracing a huge inner yard and surrounded by a closed gallery with columns and a swimming pool in the middle. The residential rooms – dining room, living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, etc., are situated around the pool. The heating of the rooms was carried out using hypocaust, an under-floor system in which the floor of the building is raised on columns built from brickwork or ceramic pipes, among which warm air circulates, heated by a specially built fireplace.
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The Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari
All Thracian tribes built amazing tombs for their rulers. The burial mounds in the Kazanluk area alone number more than 500 and most of the Thracian tombs are of the Mycenaean beehive type. One of them has its unique and realy amazing architectural style and this is the Thracian tomb of Sveshtari.Discovered in 1982 near the village of Sveshtari, this 3rd-century B.C. Thracian tomb reflects the fundamental structural principles of Thracian cult buildings. The tomb has a unique architectural decor, with polychrome half-human, half-plant caryatids and painted murals. The 10 female figures carved in high relief on the walls of the central chamber and the decoration of the lunette in its vault are the only examples of this type found so far in the Thracian lands. It is a remarkable reminder of the culture of the Getes, a Thracian people who were in contact with the Hellenistic and Hyperborean worlds, according to ancient geographers.
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The geographical center of Bulgaria – between the Stara Planina and Sredna Gora mountains – is known as the Rose Valley. For centuries the fragrant Bulgarian rose has been grown there and the attar of roses is extracted fro the production of rose oil. There, 40 years ago, in the town of Kazanluk a small Thracian Tomb was found, with murals which are of exceptional interest in the world’s cultural heritage.

The settlements in the Rose Valley date from ancient times. A Neolithic settlement (5,000 – 4,000 B.C.) was found in the western area of Kazanluk. The excavations revealed that the settlement had existed during the Stone-Copper Age and during the first half of the Bronze Age ( 4,000 – 3,000 B.C.).

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The Thracian ruler and the noble Thracian woman from the Funerary Feast scene
The Thracian ruler and the noble Thracian woman from the Funerary Feast scene
The next settlers in the Rose Valley were the Thracians. Their way of life and knowledge were based on the conditions and prerequisites established by their predecessors.
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Here i wanted to talk you about the Madara Rider ( Madara Horseman ) early medieval large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria, near the village of Madara.

The Madara Rider rock relief The relief depicts a majestic horseman 23 m above ground level in an almost vertical 100-metre-high cliff. The horseman, facing right, is thrusting a spear into a lion lying at his horse’s feet. An eagle is flying in front of the horseman and a dog is running after him. The scene symbolically depicts a military triumph.

The monument is dated back to circa 710 AD and has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1979. The dating means the monument was created during the rule of Bulgar Khan Tervel, and supports the thesis that it is a portrayal of the khan himself and a work of the Bulgars, a nomadic tribe of warriors which settled in northeastern Bulgaria at the end of the 7th century AD and after merging with the local Slavs gave origin to the modern Bulgarians. Other theories connect the relief with the ancient Thracians, claiming it portrays a Thracian god.
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