1st millennium

A piece of frieze on the visor broke of the National Library "St. St. Cyril and Methodius "in the capital. The debris has fallen in front of the building, luckily no one was injured, reports Bgnes.

The incident happened around noon. Fire and police teams were sent to the site, and the area was cut off.

One of the rarest artifacts at the Topkapı Palace, Klaudios Ptolemaios’ ‘Manual of Geography,’ known as the world’s first atlas, has been reproduced and introduced at a press conference

Hailed as one of the best guitar quartets in the world right now, Michael Baker, Vasilis Bessas, James Jervis and Rory Russell of Aquarelle will perform at the Athens Concert Hall on Saturday, February 10. The concert is a tribute to French classical composer and guitarist Roland Dyens. It starts at 8.30 p.m. and tickets cost 10 and 15 euros.

Cyclists are invited to don their silliest costume and join the Ninth Bike Carnival in the northern port city on Thursday, February 8, which sets off on a tour of the city center at 7 p.m. from the Arch of Galerius and ends with a street party at Chrimatistiriou Square at 10 p.m.

A Late Antiquity fortress wall tower from the Ancient Thracian, Greek, and Roman city of Odessos (Odessus) has been discovered by accident in the Black Sea city of Varna, with rescue archaeological excavations affirming data about the existence of Quaestura Exercitus, a peculiar administrative district in 6th century AD Byzantium (i.e.

Part of an Early Byzantine amphora with a fully preserved inscription in Ancient Greek dedicated to Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary has been discovered during the latest excavations of the Ancient Roman, medieval Byzantine and Bulgarian fortress of Trimammium near the Danube town of Mechka, Ruse District, in Northeast Bulgaria.

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The National Archaeological Museum presents "Hadrian and Athens: Conversing with an Ideal World," an exhibition marking 1,900 years since the beginning of Hadrian's Principate in AD 117. The show aims at highlighting the Roman emperor's immense enduring legacy in Greece, but also how he contributed to forging many of the cornerstones of Western culture.

Emperor, philhellene, globe-trotter and superstar, a fan of the arts who nonetheless liked to live modestly, spending a lot of time with his soldiers, Hadrian (AD 76-138) was without doubt a restless spirit and a multifaceted personality who is seen as an instrumental factor in the osmosis between the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a large town from the time of the Roman Empire hypothesizing that it might be the Ancient Thracian and Roman settlement of Scaptopara, the predecessor of today's city of Blagoevgrad in Southwest Bulgaria, whose name is known from a stone inscription of a petition by the locals to Roman Emperor Gordian III.

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Archaeologists have discovered a huge water cistern plastered on the inside with pink waterproof mortar in the fortress of Rusocastro, a major stronghold which changed hands many times between the Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires in the Middle Ages, and whose ruins are stiuated in today's Burgas District in Southeast Bulgaria.

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