Sun, Nov 08 2009
Archaelogists have warned that negligent digs threatened the future of two of the most significant Thracian sites ever discovered in Bulgaria
Bulgaria will receive back from Italy close to 3800 antique coins and other archaeological objects, smuggled into the country in 2005, Bozhidar Dimitrov, director of the National History Museum said, quoted by Bulgarian language Sega daily on January 9 2009.
Archaeologists in Bourgas have unearthed the preserved remnants of an old sea port with a fortress, believed to have been built in the late Antiquity, that is said to be the city's predecessor, Tsonya Drazheva, director of the Bourgas regional museum said at a news conference on January 8 2009, Focus news agency reported.
Bulgarian fishermen have found an ancient fishing boat in the Gulf of Sozopol on November 28, Dnevnik daily reported. The boat was found during a routine fishing trip and was taken to Sozopol's archaeological museum. Apparently made of oak wood, the boat was built using metal tools, which made it unlikely to be dating back to pre-historic times, the museum curator Dimitar Nedev said.
Over the summer of 2008, Bulgaria's National Museum of History and Ministry of Culture gave 22 000 leva to fund archaeological research. Turns that it was worth it - a 1.5m gold necklace-like piece of jewellery, made of 320 beads, was discovered, thought to date to the Bronze Era. It was found at a dig at a 31m-wide, 2.9m-high mogila (a man-made hill-shaped grave) in the area of Isvorovo, Harmani municipality, by team led by Borislav Borislavov of Sofia University and Nadezhda Ivanova of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Kindergartens to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and universities to decide for themselves whether to suspend classes.
Five illegal immigrants from Iran and Iraq caught by Bulgarian police in Sliven.
Leonid Lavchev sent an intermediary to collect 1000 leva from a dairy farm in Haskovo, investigators say
Former labour minister Emilia Maslarova follows the example of Socialist party leader and former prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, in requesting that her MP immunity is lifted
Health Minister: Influenza strain is not seasonal flu, it is swine flu. More than 100 000 Bulgarians are down with the H1N1 strain.
"the sub-civilized, aggressive and barbarian Sasanian Persians"? Wake up! And start reading!