I just watched the news on the local cable operator and heard a story that terrified me. It was about the destruction of the oldest founds of civilization on European Continent.

It was archaeological founds near the city of Lyubimetz. According to all Bulgarian archaeologists who involved in the digs, it contains the oldest objects and traces of civilization in Europe.

And due to the misery and bad attitude and i don’t know what other, workers from the Road Agency in Bulgaria, who build new road there destroyed it with a .

I haven’t heard of that kind of foolish act recently and i really want to see who will answer about it.

North of the city of Varna, there is a village expressively called Kamen Briag / or which means Stony Coast/. The Stone Coast (Kamen Bryag in Bulgarian; known also as ‘Yaylata’) lies on the sea coast between the beautiful Kaliakra and Shabla capes. A village by the same name of Kamen Bryag (Stone Coast) is located 2km north of the Yaylata area.Although Yaylata is a bit far from the most popular resorts and hence is little known as a tourist attraction, it is one of the most amazing places along the Bulgarian coast. It represents an oval ledge, broken off the Dobrudja plate by the coast. The big cliffs make this area almost inaccessible, except via a few narrow paths among the rocks. About 40 caves can be found in the vertical cliffs hanging over the sea. Their smoothed walls and niches dug deep into the rock speak about the existence of an ancient cave settlement there. There are also remains of a stronghold dating back to Roman and Byzantine times. A 90 ha region is declared a protected archaeological area. Between the village of Kamen Briag and the sea shore lies a stretch of land covered in August with yellow grass and ripe thorns. The soil at this place is several inches deep, beneath is rock. Found around are small amounts of oil, small amounts of natural gas and a large number of tales.

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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 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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