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 ...
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When they first left the house, they were on the steps that led to the road to the steppes! ;^)
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The Cyclopean masonry otherwise called megalithic structures.
Ha!
Movie metaphorical references -- shaken not stirred.
The myth of the one-eyed giants grew out of the occasional incidental excavation or other discovery of pachyderm skeletons and fossils.
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