The Associated Press
SOFIA, Bulgaria
- Archaeologists in southern Bulgaria have uncovered the remains
of a completely preserved Thracian tomb, decorated with murals,
the daily Trud reported Monday.
The tomb,
near the town of Haskovo, about 145 miles southeast of Sofia,
is made of big stone blocks and has two chambers forming a dome
at the top. There are paintings of horses and Thracian armed warriors
on the walls.
The Thracians
were Bronze Age people, whose civilization thrived in the Balkans
from 2000 B.C. until the invasion of the Slavs in the sixth century
A.D.
This is the
second Thracian tomb with murals of humans discovered in Bulgaria
and one of the most significant finds in Thracian archaeology
this century, experts say.
The first
Thracian tomb of this kind was unearthed in 1944 in the town of
Kazanlak, about 125 miles east of Sofia.
Earlier this
year, archaeologists discovered a palace and tomb of Thracian
rulers, near the largest Thracian remains found to date in Bulgaria,
about 100 miles north of the newly discovered tomb.
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