The excavation works near Golyam Dervent, Elhovo Municipality are restarted. There were found fragments of enormous frieze, amazing decorated with geometric images.
The sensation at the case is the image of labris – deeply encrusted at the paving stone near the main entrance of the funeral camera. The labris has been all the time symbol of King’s power and might.That is the very first and unique find of labris at the territory, ruled by Thracian tribes with image from about IX-IIX century before Christ. That king’s symbol during the II millennium B.C. is becoming symbol of Odrysian dynasty and the appearance of labris III centuries earlier is confirming that this territory, where later appear the Odrysian kingdom is the place where statesmanship’s unifying has been started for first time at Thracia.
Continue reading Second thracian tomb was found near Golyam Dervent, Elhovo municipality.
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The dolmen near Pelevun, oriented in an east-west direction with its entrance at the east, consists of a big burial chamber, a narthex and a dromos (corridor), all with a rectangular shape. Its total length is 7.5 meters. The dolmen was built in a hollow place in slightly rising grounds, pre-prepared for that purpose. Separate and roughly shaped gneiss blocks, upright and dug into the rocky soil make up the dolmen. At the entrance of the monument, an original facade was formed from two vertical blocks, rounded on the top, flanking the entrance from north and south. The single block found fallen in front of the entrance probably covered it. A 2.8-meter corridor follows the entrance. Its walls are long, vertical stones. The north wall was built up with three rows of horizontal plates were laid down on top of it. The chamber before the burial chamber is wider, shorter and higher than the dromos. After the wider and shorter chamber is the burial chamber. Its walls are built from 2.75m long stone plates. The floor is covered with one huge stone plate.
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The chamber and the antechamber were probably covered with horizontally placed huge stones. The corridor was most likely not covered and the architectural plan of the dolmen is unusually complex and uncommon among the similar monuments studied in Bulgaria. The monument may have been built and used by the Thracian tribes after the 5th Century BC (Late Iron Epoch). Its architectural plan is similar to the Thracian mounds built during that epoch. The dolmen was used for burials of members of the Thracian aristocracy clans in that region and is evidence for the development of a state organization among the Thracian tribes.
The dolmen, built from gneiss plates, is one-chambered and lacks the characteristic antechamber and corridor. The burial chamber is orientated in an east-west direction. The north side plate and the west transverse plate are well preserved. A ring of vertically-erected plates tightly arranged next to each other surrounds the dolmen. There are piles of small stones – gneiss, quartz and marble – grouped in several rows in the area between the burial chamber and the surrounding plates. The floor of the chamber was also paved with gneiss plates.
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The site has been excavated many times. As in most of the Thracian dolmens studied so far in the region of Ivailovgrad, proof exists of the long-term usage of the dolmen for multiple burials during the end of the 2nd and during the 1st Millennium BC. During the period of the Ottoman reign, the graveyard of the nearby village was near the dolmen and some rituals occurred here as this was the oldest grave in this place.
Continue reading Thracian Dolmen near the village of Jelezino, Ivailovgrad municipality
A natural furrow additionally carved and shaped like a small rock basin, can be found approximately 1.5km southeast from the village of Oriahovo in the valley of the riverbanks
. Throughout the year, it is filled with water that does not dry up even during times of drought. The liquid flows in the basin from a crack in the rock. There are reasons to believe that during antiquity, before the deforestation of the region, the natural spring was far more deep-watered.
The Ancient Thracians gave a divine notion to the springs and often turned them into sanctuaries dedicated to the water nymphs, called nympheums. The additional carvings in the basin of the vicinity of God’s Step were probably done for this purpose. It is apparent that this sanctuary was part of the huge cult burial complex on the land of the village of Oriahovo, which also includes several dolmen tombs and cult rock niches. They were used for performing rituals connected with the cult of the dead, as well as those connected with the Thracian belief in a cyclic recurrence of the permanently reviving nature.
Continue reading God’s Step, Ljubimetz municipality Bulgaria
Stop-Loss buy The present landscape throughout this part of the country is very different from that of a few centuries ago. The relief of the region has remained unchanged throughout the past ten millennia, but the other elements of the surrounding scenery suffered significant changes. The first major difference in comparison with the past is that, during antiquity, the region was covered with centuries-old forests. According to some documents from the 17th Century, not only the mountains were covered with thick forests, but also the river valleys. The settlements and the cultivated agricultural lands were tiny islands among the surrounding forests. The clearing of the forests started after the 18th Century, when the population growth in that region forced the people to search for new lands to cultivate. Parallel with that, timber from the region was being transported with rafts over the Maritza River to meet the necessities of the towns of Edirne and Tsarigrad. The rivers in the past were much deeper because of the existence of huge forests, as well as some less significant differences in the climate of the region.
Continue reading Historical development of the South-East region during the period from the 6th Millennium BC to the 14th Century
The Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age were already periods about which mankind has memories. These were the heroic times of the Trojan War described by the great Homer in the 8th – 7th century BC. The
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Thracians and their leaders, who lived in the present-day Bulgarian lands and fought bravely under the walls of Troy together with the Greek heroes.
Continue reading The Rock People from the Rhodope, Strandja and Sakar Mountains
