The Cyclopean masonry outer wall of the newly discovered fortress near Bulgaria's Zlatograd is similar to that of Ancient Mycenae. Photo: Archaeological team via BTA
Posted on 10/27/2018 5:43:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An ancient fortress which is 3,000 - 3,200 years old and was built with the so called Cyclopean masonry has been found by archaeologists in Bulgaria's Rhodope Mountains, near the town of Zlatograd and the border with Greece, and is taken as evidence that Ancient Thrace was part of the Mycenaean Civilization.
The previously undetected fortress is roughly dated to 1,200 BC, i.e. to the time of Ancient Troy and the Trojan War.
It is located near Zlatograd, Bulgaria's southernmost town, near the southern slopes of the Rhodope Mountains, in an area that is only about 20 kilometers away from the coast of the Aegean (Mediterranean) Sea.
The Cyclopean masonry used to erect the fortress wall of the newly found Ancient Thracian city is typical precisely of Ancient Mycenae and the Crete - Mycenaen Civilization: it is built of enormous boulders without any mortar, not unlike the fortress walls of Mycenae, Tiryns, and Troy.
The Cyclopean masonry fortress near Zlatograd has been found by accident by an archeological expedition which earlier this month discovered the site of an Ancient Thracian royal residence from the 5th - 4th century BC located near the town of Benkovski, in the neighboring Kirkovo Municipality.
Each of the boulders used for the construction of the newly found Bronze Age fortress weighs approximately 5 metric tons...
Behind the fortress wall, his team has explored what they believe were two public buildings and a shrine as well as a necropolis, and a fortified castle. These are believed to be the remains of a major city from Ancient Thrace from the time of Achilles, Hector, and Odisseus.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeologyinbulgaria.com ...
The Cyclopean masonry outer wall of the newly discovered fortress near Bulgaria's Zlatograd is similar to that of Ancient Mycenae. Photo: Archaeological team via BTA
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Full title, "3,200-Year-Old Cyclopean Masonry Fortress Found in South Bulgaria, Shows Ancient Thrace Was Part of Mycenaean Civilization".
BTW, these don't look like walls, they look like natural formations to me.
thanks for posting! Thrace was definitely on the road from the steppes to pre-Greek Greece.
I don't know much about a lot of archeology but read things that capture my interest like a very early Christian site discovered in Israel on the grounds of a prison.
Here's a video about Schliemann, a 3-part series, all short, will watch the other 2 later, was up until the wee hours watching a live version by National Geography about theories of the creation of the universe and related matters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0jkFPDx8k0 - Heinrich Schliemann and the discovery of Troy - 1/3
mark
This ought to be your Theme Song then, Mesopotamia by the B-52s.
"Turn your watch, turn your watch back About a hundred thousand years A hundred thousand years
I'll meet you by the third pyramid I'll meet you by the third pyramid Ah come on, that's what I want, we'll meet In Mesopotamia. oh oh oh (We're goin' down to meet) I ain't no student (Feel those vibrations) of ancient culture (I know a neat excavation) Before I talk I should read a book But there's one thing I do know There's a lot of ruins in Mesopotamia"
Well that was pretty formulaic.
Hey, it was the 80s.
But we had better meet by the Sphinx because I don't know which one is the third.
Speaking of which, wasn't Melania stunning out there at that ancient site? I was a little put off by her choice of clothes, but it certainly grew on me. That was wonderful photography, too, with her back to the camera and some of the structures in the bg.
My father would have loved these new discoveries as he had many interests. Odd I never mentioned to him about Schliemann and other quality (occasionally) things I read. He had a complete set of the Harvard Classics and other books like Greek Mythology. They didn't interest me then.
But methinks I have a bad habit of talking to much . . . .
He raped Thrace, and then he did it again, and then he did it again. You mean he rapedThrace thrice?
That sounds like the theme music from the Michael Wood, yup, that’s his voice. Not a bad place to get the skinny on Schliemann — Wood has more on ball than a couple of the degreed and chaired British twits he interviewed.
Here’s the much later retrospective interview found on the DVD of the documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOHBVyOXTeA
Hey, we didn’t quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, and we’re not gonna quit now!
Steve is better now than he was then, but probably was better compositionally when he was part of the Genesis collaboration. He's still out there touring.
;^)
Angels and ministers of Thrace, defend us.
I wish Lego made a set that made it possible to do a corbelled dome, a la the Mycenaeans -- although the blocks would have a different size with each row, making it a one-use set.
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