Okt 2, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
After 20 years of excavations, the study of the only Orpheus sanctuary
discovered in the world to date at the village of Tatul in Momchilgrad
municipality, (Southern Bulgaria), has been fully completed, the head of the
archaeological research team, Prof. Nikolai Ovcharov, announced.
The object of scientific activity this year, as in the previous year, was the missing link of data on what happened to the sanctuary after the 3rd-4th century.
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Archaeologists uncovered a Roman pagan temple in the area of Orpheus
sanctuary. It dates to the 3rd-4th century. They came across the temple during
excavations of an early Christian church.
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