Remarkable Thracian Tomb In Huge Mound Necropolis Of Kazanlak, Bulgaria

A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com –The ‘Valley of Thracian Kings’ is an extraordinary place with numerous burial mounds (tumuli) containing the Thracian rulers’ and high aristocrats’ tombs and graves.

The tumuli are located in the valley of the Central Bulgarian town of Kazanlak, excavated by the late Bulgarian archaeologist Georgi Kitov, specializing in Ancient Thrace, who excavated most of the tombs in the Kazanlak Valley and named it the Valley of the Thracian Kings.

More than a thousand burials of kings and members of the Thracian aristocracy have their location in the valley. Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak – accidentally discovered in 1944  – dates from the Hellenistic period, around the end of the 4th century BC, and is part of a large Thracian necropolis.

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