🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Buried city
Colluvial Covered Settlement North
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Colluvial Covered Settlement North in Thracian Plain, Bulgaria is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) buried city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Durankulak — North Niche (Great Mound)
Chalcolithic to Bronze Age (4500–1200 BCE) · Chalcolithic–Early Bronze
Durankulak — North Niche (Great Mound) in Dobrich, Shabla, Durankulak, Bulgaria is a Chalcolithic to Bronze Age (4500–1200 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcoli…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Buried city
Hearths Layer North — Thracian Plain (Plovdiv)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Hearths Layer North in Thracian Plain, Bulgaria is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) buried city attributed to Classical culture.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Hydraulic works
Seuthopolis Reservoir Embankment East
Hellenistic (400-200 BCE) · Thracian
Seuthopolis Reservoir Embankment East in Kazanlak, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria is a Hellenistic (400-200 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Thracian.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Hydraulic works
Seuthopolis Reservoir Embankment East — Western Terrace
Hellenistic (400-200 BCE) · Thracian
Seuthopolis Reservoir Embankment East — Western Terrace in Kazanlak, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria is a Hellenistic (400-200 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Thracian.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Shrine Niche North — Thracian Plain (Plovdiv)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Shrine Niche North in Thracian Plain, Bulgaria is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) tell attributed to Classical culture.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient city
Tells Stratified Sequence North
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Tells Stratified Sequence North in Thracian Plain, Bulgaria is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Megalith
Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis Sector 3 — Eastern Outlier
Chalcolithic (4600-4200 BCE) · Varna Culture
Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis Sector 3 — Eastern Outlier in Varna Oblast, Bulgaria is a Chalcolithic (4600-4200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Varna Culture.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Yunatsite Tell — Pazardzhik Buried Balkans Tell
Early Neolithic to EBA (5800–2200 BCE; ditch phase 4600 BCE) · Karanovo I–VI → Karanovo VI–Gumelniţa → Ezero
Massacre tell 4600 BCE — 30 perimortem skeletons in ditches (Katincharov).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Durankulak Tell South Settlement
Eneolithic to Early Bronze (5000–2800 BCE) · Hamangia → Gumelnița → Ezero (EBA)
Durankulak Tell South Settlement is the south lakeside extension on Lake Durankulak — a Hamangia–Gumelnița tell (5000 BCE) with a 1200-grave flat cemetery, the largest Eneolithic necropolis on the…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient village
Durankulak – Lake Durankulak Archaeological Complex
Early Neolithic to Medieval (Hamangia → Varna → Gumelnița → Thracian → Greek) · Hamangia → Varna → Gumelnița → Thracian coastal
Island tell and lake necropolis spanning 6500 years continuously (c.5100 BCE Early Neolithic to 1000 CE medieval) — the longest stratigraphic column on Black Sea coast.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Hotnitsa North Tell — Veliko Tarnovo Gumelniţa
Late Chalcolithic Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Kodžadermen (4600–4300 BCE) · Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen–Karanovo VI
Chalcolithic burned village 4600 BCE — 407 gold items neighbouring mound (Chohadzhiev).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Karanovo Tell — Southeast Nova Zagora Type-Site
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6200–4000 BCE; Karanovo I–VII) · Karanovo I–VII → Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen → Early Bronze Ezero
Type tell 6200–4000 BCE — 12 m Karanovo I–VII 18 horizons (Mikov).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Rock art
Magura Cave Paintings
Neolithic to Iron Age (5000–1200 BCE) · Late Neolithic Karanovo, Eneolithic Gumelnița-Krivodol, Bronze Age Verbicioara
Bulgarian 2.5-km cave 700 guano paintings Neolithic to Iron Age with 366-day calendar.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Ovcharovo Tell — Targovishte Ritual House Tell
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (5700–4300 BCE) · Karanovo II–VI → Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa
Ritual house tell 5700 BCE — plaster floor with 13 inhumations (Todorova).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Polyanitsa Platoto
Late Chalcolithic (c.4500–4200 BCE); KGK VI complex (Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI) · KGK VI Chalcolithic (Balkan Late Copper Age) Ludogorie facies
Ludogorie Chalcolithic fortified tell (c.4500–4200 BCE) with KGK VI burnt horizons and double ditch — Todorova.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Buried city
Varna Necropolis
Late Chalcolithic / Copper Age · Varna culture (Karanovo VI/Gumelnița)
Chalcolithic cemetery (4600–4200 BCE) with world's oldest worked gold hoard — 3,000 gold objects, 6.5 kg, in Grave 43 (status male with gold penis sheath) and 294 other graves, demonstrating earliest…