Tag: Thracian in Kazanlak

Mystical megalith near the Bulgarian village of Buzovgrad is still hiding its secrets, 4000 years after it was created by a human hand. “The door to the Mother Goddess” as the rock is called was created around 2000 years BC. From the people who lived in the Bulgarian lands before the Thracians. Later, however, it was used for ritual purposes Read more...

The tomb of Thracian king Seuthes III or Kosmatka mound was built in the 5th century BC. In it was found skilfully decorated golden wreath of the ruler, golden wineglass, knee pads, helmet and applications for horse trappings. As well as the head of the statue of Seuthes that has stood on a pedestal in the capital of the Thracians – Sevtopolis. Read more...

The Valley of the Thracian Kings near Kazanlak is still hiding its secrets from the past. It is assumed that the region has more than 1,500 Thracian burial mounds and at the time are studied only about 300. The most famous tomb is the one discovered in Kazanlak, which is located in the town park „Tyulbeto”. It is simply called Read more...

Perhaps the most mysterious and mystical Thracian temple is that in mound Ostrusha. It is dated from the mid-4th century BC. It consists of 6 rooms. The most impressive among them is the burial chamber. The tomb is robbed in antiquity and we don’t know even knowing who it was made for. The burial chamber is very interesting because of Read more...

Temple in mound Shushmanets is dated 4th century BC. It was robbed in the antiquity. Today we can’t admire the gold inside but can see another treasure – the architecture of the temple. In the middle of the antechamber of the tomb rises single Ionic columns, which is inclined like the tower of Pisa, succumbed to the weight of the Read more...