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Early Iron Age Celtic people copied Greek coins, often faithfully reproducing their designs and inscriptions. This suggests that Thracian die-engravers were illiterate, as legible Greek letters were gradually replaced by abstract patterns...

Silver-gilt amphora-rhyton from Kukouva Mogila tumulus, Duvanlii. Early 5th century BCE. National Archaeological Institute with Museum - BAS. Photo: Nikolay Genov in catalogue of the exhibition Los Tracios. Tesoros enigmáticos de Bulgaria...

1st-2nd century CE tombstone found in the remains of the ancient Roman city of Abritus, modern-day Razgrad, Bulgaria.

Roman legionary from Legio XI Claudia, 2nd-3rd century CE. Silistra Museum of History, Bulgaria.

A detail of a painted dromos and dome camera from a tumulus near Aleksandrovo village, Haskovo district, Bulgaria. The dromos has battle scenes while the burial chamber has a hunting scene, unfolded in a circle, and in the lower register...

Bukelon Fortress ruins, Thrace (modern-day Bulgaria), ruins from the 12-14th century CE. This site was mentioned in reports from the Battle of Adrianople in the 4th century CE.

Silver-gilt bull rhyton from the Borovo treasure. First half of the 4th century BCE. Regional Museum of History - Ruse. Photo: Nikolay Genov in the catalogue of the exhibition Los Tracios. Tesoros enigmáticos de Bulgaria, Barcelona-Valencia-Madrid...

Portrait of Roman emperor Diocletian (284-305 CE) from Brest village, Pleven region, Bulgaria, late 3rd to early 4th century CE. National Archaeological Museum, Sofia.

A detail of a painted dromos and dome camera from a tumulus near Aleksandrovo village, Haskovo district, Bulgaria. The dromos has battle scenes while the burial chamber has a hunting scene, unfolded in a circle, and in the lower register...

A Thracian gold pectoral. From a king's tomb at Dalboki, Bulgaria. 500-400 BCE. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)