Archaeologists are working up on mason Thracian tomb at saving excavations near Cherniche village. The team with leader the thracologist from the National archaeologist institute Georgi Nehrizov is expolirg that tomb, dated to IV-III before Christ. The sepulchre’s chamber got fully preserved holding of the walls. The dimensions of the tomb are 2/1.80 m and height 2m. The antechamber has been destroyed by treasure hunters during the last year with steam navvy. The archaeological study of this tomb may finish today. Specialists are debating for the protection of this object. The tomb is fully open.

Thracian tomb at about 3000 years was found at Perperikon by Krasimir Leshtakov. That was announced by Professor Nikolai Ovcharov, who told that it is result of studies at the foot of the historical hill. In consideration of treasure-hunter’s excavation near rock, the find has been explored and there has been found hew out sepulchre. That;s the one and only such sepulcher in the Perperikon area. Compared to the other 45 excavated objects, this is the first also with preserved cultural stratum. The find is engraved into monolythic rock at the end of the bronze and the beginning of the iron epoch. At the niche there is placed round feretory, shaped by dry walling and covered with paving stone.
“Probably it’s about symbolic furniture of chieftain or priest, perished somewhere else, because the sepulchre is empty” explain NIkolai Ovcharov. Near the tomb was found Roman ceramic. That confirms that the place has been honored in later epoch, adds Leshtakov. It has been object of people’s cult for the Thracians, different from the official religion, consider mister Leshtakov.