🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Kozareva Mogila
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Kozareva Mogila — buried prehistoric tell/village at Burgas Province.
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🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Radingrad Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Radingrad Tell — buried prehistoric tell/village at Razgrad Province.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Urdoviza
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Urdoviza — buried prehistoric tell/village at Dobrich Province.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Koprivec Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Koprivec Tell — buried prehistoric tell/village at Ruse Province.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Azmashka Mogila (Azmak Tell)
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Azmashka Mogila (Azmak Tell) — buried prehistoric tell/village at Stara Zagora Province.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Provadia-Solnitsata (The Salt Pit) — Eneolithic Salt Production Tell
Late Neolithic through Late Chalcolithic (5500–4200 BCE) · Hamangia → Varna → KGK VI (Kodžadermen-Gumelnița-Karanovo VI)
Provadia-Solnitsata (The Salt Pit) — Eneolithic Salt Production Tell is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Varna Province, Provadia District, Provadiyska River valley, Bulgaria — Oldest…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Karanovo Tell (Karanovo Neolithic–Chalcolithic Stratotype)
Early Neolithic through Early Bronze II (Karanovo I–VII, 6200–2800 BCE) · Karanovo I–VII (Starčevo → Vinča → Gumelnița → Ezero)
Karanovo Tell (Karanovo Neolithic–Chalcolithic Stratotype) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Sliven Province, Nova Zagora District, Azmak stream plain, Thrace, Bulgaria — Thracian stratotype…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
Varna Necropolis – Chalcolithic Gold Cemetery
Chalcolithic (Copper Age Gumelniţa/Kodzhadermen–Gumelnitsa–Karanovo VI) · Varna culture (Late Copper Age Balkan)
4600 BCE cemetery with 6.5 kg gold—world's earliest large stratified gold treasure (Grave 43 penis sheath).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Ezero Tell
Chalcolithic → Early Bronze Ezero culture (4600–3200 BCE) · Chalcolithic → Early Bronze Ezero culture (4600–3200 BCE)
Ezero Tell in Sliven Province, Nova Zagora Plain, Ezero village, Bulgaria is a Chalcolithic → Early Bronze Ezero culture (4600–3200 BCE) settlement attributed to Chalcolithic → Early Bronze Ezero…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Yunatsite Tell
Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) · Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE)
Yunatsite Tell in Pazardzhik Province, Yunatsite village, Bulgaria is a Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) settlement attributed to Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) culture.
🇧🇬 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
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 · Tell
Ovcharovo Tell
Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) · Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE)
Ovcharovo Tell in Targovishte Province, Ovcharovo village, Bulgaria is a Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) settlement attributed to Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) culture.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient city
Solnitsata (Provadia-Solnitsata)
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Karanovo–Varna sequence) · Hamangia → Varna → Gumelnița associated
Earliest prehistoric town in Europe (c.5600–4350 BCE, Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic) — fortified stone-walled (3 m thick) salt-production centre at Mirovo rock salt spring, the oldest salt mine in…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Hotnitsa Tell North Settlement
Early Chalcolithic to Late Chalcolithic (4600–3800 BCE) · Boian–Gumelnița → KGK VI (Kodzhadermen–Gumelnița–Karanovo VI)
Hotnitsa Tell North Settlement is the 3.2-ha north extension of the Hotnitsa Eneolithic tell on the Yantra River — a Gumelnița–KGK VI tell 15 km northeast of Veliko Tarnovo.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Ovcharovo Tell North Mound
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (5000–4000 BCE) · Boian → Polyanitsa → Gumelnița (KGK VI)
Ovcharovo Tell North Mound is the northern tell of the Ovcharovo complex on the Ludogorie plateau — one of Todorova's Polyanitsa–Gumelnița tells documenting Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic nucleation…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Hotnitsa Tell (Hotnica)
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Karanovo → Gumelnița–Varna) · Boian → Gumelnița–Karanovo VI–Varna
Fortified Chalcolithic tell (c.4500–4000 BCE, Gumelnița-Karanovo VI–Varna complex, + Early Neolithic base c.6000 BCE) near Hotnitsa waterfall (Kaya Bunar cascade 30 m) on Yantra terrace.
🇧🇬 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 · Submerged site
Apollonia Pontica (Sozopol) – Submerged Necropolis & Anchorage
Archaic to Late Antiquity (610 BCE – 6th c. CE) · Milesian Greek / Thracian / Roman / Byzantine
610 BCE Milesian colony whose harbours are now –6 m and linked to the vanished island Kianida of Ptolemy's map.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Karanovo Tell South Sector
Early Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic (6200–3800 BCE) · Karanovo I–VII → KGK VI (Gumelnița–Karanovo VI)
Karanovo Tell South Sector is the southern lobe of Karanovo tell — the type-site for Balkan Neolithic–Chalcolithic chronology (Karanovo I–VII, 6200–3800 BCE) on the Thracian plain.
🇧🇬 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 · Submerged site
Nessebar (Mesembria) – Drowned Peninsula
Thracian to Ottoman (6th c. BCE – 1453+) · Thracian / Megarian Greek / Roman / Byzantine / Bulgarian / Ottoman
610 BCE Megarian peninsula city whose western fortifications now lie 4 m underwater.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
Perperikon Thracian Rock City
Chalcolithic to Late Antiquity (5000 BCE – 400 CE; rock city peak 1500–500 BCE) · Thracian (Bessi tribe) to Roman and Byzantine
Rocky massif on the Perperek gold–bearing ridge where Thracians carved a palace-temple complex into the living rock: hall of prophecies claimed as the sanctuary of Dionysus visited by Alexander…
🇧🇬 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…