Rare relief of Cybele and three nymphs points to a Thracian pagan shrine in Bulgaria

Archaeologists in southern Bulgaria have finished a season of digging at a pagan temple beside the Arda River, and the results change what researchers know about worship in Western Thrace during Late Antiquity. The work took place at the Balak Dere site in the municipality of Ivaylovgrad and ended in October 2026. Ivaylo Kanev, chief […]

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