Scientists are puzzled and cannot find a specific name to define the ancient domed tomb near Bulgaria’s coastal town Pomorie. It became popular among the locals as the "hollow mound" because the tomb was carefully covered with earth, like the mounds left by the ancient Thracians. The excavations began at the end of the 19th century when the Czech archaeologists Karel and Hermann Škorpil visited Anhialo /this is the ancient name of Pomorie/ to describe the local antiquities. They made the first sketches of the place and with their publications acquainted the whole world community with this interesting archeological monument.
Take a peek behind the walls of this architectural masterpiece with the material in this week’s Editor’s Picks from Radio Bulgaria’s collection Pomorie tomb remains an unsolved mystery for 100 years.
On September 11, 1930, in the village of Tvarditsa, Burgas region, Nikola Stanchev Nikolov was born. A freestyle and classical wrestler, in 1956 he won the first Olympic gold medal in freestyle wrestling in the 79 kg category in Melbourne..
On September 8, when the Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Nativity of the Holy Theotokos), we take a look at the beautiful valley of Gabrovnitsa River and the Monastery of the Holy Theotokos, better..
It was 1883 when construction began in Plovdiv on the building of the Regional Assembly of Eastern Rumelia, based on a design by architect Pietro Montani. Eastern Rumelia was an autonomous Bulgarian province within the Ottoman Empire and one of the..
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