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Archaeological excavations
31.01.2007
In the late November and early December 2006, emergency archaeological excavations in the Gradishteto locality (Smilyovo gradishte), at Velichkovo, near Pazardzhik were carried out in reply to the great public interest and on initiative of the IAM executives.
The excavations...
04.01.2007
Tell Yunatsite
One of the aims of the last excavation season, directed by Dr. Yavor Boyadzhiev and Dr. Ioannis Aslanis, was the search for a cemetery of the Chalcolithic settlement. Trenches were made to the south, west and northwest of the tell, on the left bank of the...
08.11.2006
In 2006, a team of the Institute of Archaeology and Museum directed by Prof. Dr. Vassil Nikolov excavated a unique archaeological site near the town of Lyubimets, south Bulgaria. The excavations at the late Neolithic site of Dana bunar 2 revealed two cultural layers dating to...
13.08.2006
The archaeological teams directed by experts of the Institute of Archaeology and Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences now excavate more than forty archaeological sites in Bulgaria. These include the Paleolithic site in the Kozarnika Cave, near Belogradchik; prehistoric...
04.05.2006
L’Institut Français de Sofia et
l’Institut d’Archéologie avec musée auprès de l’Académie Bulgare des Sciences
ont le plaisir de vous inviter à une conférence
d’ Antoine HERMARY, Professeur d’archéologie à...
20.02.2006
Tell Provadia-Solnitsata is situated 3 km south of the town of Provadia, northeast Bulgaria. Present height of the tell is c. 15 m and its base diameter is c. 80 m. The tell has been deposited in the late Neolithic, and the middle and late Chalcolithic; not until the Roman period...
20.02.2006
We explored the northern periphery of a stratified site comprising features and artifacts from the Neolithic (a settlement), the late Iron Age (a 5th – early 3rd cent. BC pit sanctuary), and the Middle Ages. The Medieval structures have been dug immediately into the earlier ones...
15.02.2006
Proto-Bulgarian Cemetery at Balchik
Several years now Prof. Dr. Sc. Lyudmila Doncheva-Petkova and her small team have been excavating the earliest known Proto-Bulgarian cemetery. It is situated in the area of the former Air Force Base near Balchik, on the Black Sea coast. 175...
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