Workers Split Up a Byzantine Gold Hoard. Only 150 Coins Were Saved
A hoard discovered during construction work in northwestern Bulgaria may originally have contained as many as 600 Byzantine gold coins. Instead of being reported to…
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Vaulted Tomb of Georgian King Ashot the Great Discovered at Gevhernik Castle in Turkey
Archaeologists excavating the medieval fortress of Gevhernik Castle in Ardanuç, Artvin Province (northeastern Turkey) have located what they believe to be the burial chamber of…
Buried Secrets of Kaliakra: Child Graves, Gold Coins, and Traces of the Plague on Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast
On a windswept rocky headland that once served as the capital of the Dobruja Despotate, archaeologists have unearthed new evidence of medieval life and death.…