Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed the skeleton of a young man who climbed into a storage jar to hide from attackers roughly 1,600 years ago, and never climbed out. Professor Lyudmil Vagalinski of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences announced the discovery on August 10, after his team dug through layers of construction debris at the […] The post Skeleton in a jar: archaeologists piece together a young Roman's final moments in Bulgaria appeared first on American Almanac .
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed the skeleton of a young man who climbed into a storage jar to hide from attackers roughly 1,600 years ago, and never climbed out. Professor Lyudmil Vagalinski of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences announced the discovery on August 10, after his team dug through layers of construction debris at the ancient Roman city of Deultum. Inside a burned-out defensive tower at the city's western gate, they found the lower half of a massive clay storage jar, and, crouched within it, the remains of a young man who had been sealed beneath a replacement floor for sixteen centuries. The find offers a grim, human-scale window into the collapse of Roman order along the empire's eastern frontier. Deultum, one of…Open
The Air Force pulled two KC-135 Stratotanker refueling planes from Bulgaria, ending a brief deployment that drew sharp criticism and warnings from Iran.
Bilateral talks at the Pentagon focused on NATO burden-sharing, eastern flank collective deterrence and Bulgaria’s acquisition of eight F-16 Block 70 fighter aircraft.
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Iran is mulling possible retaliatory options against U.S. assets in Europe should President Donald Trump escalate the war, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. FT cited “insiders” who said Iranian forces have weighed attacks in southeastern European countries such as Bulgaria, which last month approved U.S. military use of its Bezmer airbase for refueling. Bulgaria’s Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov had assured legislators that the “temporary presence” of U.S. aircraft would “not make Bulgaria a party to the military conflict.” Iran has separately considered targeting underwater fiber-optic cables in the Strait of Hormuz. The chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces on Wednesday said that “any assistance and…Open
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A Bulgarian migrant has been found guilty of assaulting a Scottish girl who went viral last year after being filmed brandishing a knife and axe to defend herself, resulting in her being denigrated by corporate media figures and leftists who refused to believe her account of the migrant's abusive actions.
A Bulgarian migrant has been found guilty of assaulting a Scottish girl who went viral last year after being filmed brandishing a knife and axe to defend herself, resulting in her being denigrated by corporate media figures and leftists who refused to believe her account of the migrant’s abusive actions. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Ilia Belov, a 22-year-old Bulgarian migrant , was found guilty of assaulting a 12-year-old girl and behaving in a threatening manner towards four girls aged between 12 and 14 in Dundee, Scotland . The girl went viral after being recorded by the migrant while brandishing an axe and knife to defend herself, with the corporate media suggesting she was racist and dismissing her claims that she was being…Open
U.S. Air Force planes operating out of Bulgaria must leave soon in connection with a dispute over civilian travel rules, the country’s prime minister said.