Ornate Horse Harness Uncovered in Thracian Warrior's Grave

Archaeology Magazine ^ | August 11, 2025 | editors / unattributed

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Bronze plate depicting Hercules defeating the giant Antaeus, Kapitan Petko Voivoda, Bulgaria

Municipality of Topolovgrad

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• Archaeologists Uncover Gold Artifacts in the Tomb of a Thracian Warrior [08/27/2024]
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• 6 Amazing Artifacts with Ancient Greek Mythology Scenes Discovered in Bulgaria [01/07/2019]
• 3,200-Year-Old Cyclopean Masonry Fortress... Ancient Thrace Was Part of Mycenaean Civilization [tr] [10/27/2018]
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• Bulgarian Archaeologist Discovers Previously Unknown Ancient Thracian Fortress...[on] Ropotamo River [07/01/2015]
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• Bulgarian Archaeologists Find Unique Gold Thracian Treasure [11/08/2012]
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• Archaeologists Find Thracian Town on Bulgarian Sea Coast [08/14/2012]
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[Dr. Franklin]

A corpse is a corpse,
Of horse, of horse.

[TalBlack]

So, yeah, steal it from his grave.

[Billthedrill]

OK, that's funny right there.

Bump to the top!

[Verginius Rufus]

Herodotus says of the Thracians: "To live by war and plunder is of all things most glorious."

Of course that was true of most Indo-European-speaking peoples.

[SunkenCiv]

😁

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Of course that was true of most Indo-European-speaking all peoples.

[Red Badger]

“Bronze plate depicting Hercules defeating the giant Antaeus....”

If you say so...................🙄

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, and I suppose if it came from IFLScience...

[Ciexyz]

Alexander the Great’s mother Olympias was a Thracian princess, and she was a wild one. Philip of Macedonia couldn’t handle her.

[Georgia Girl 2]

😆 that’s not exactly what I would call fighting.

[Red Badger]

The myth:

Antaeus was a demigod king of what is now Libya. He was also a ‘giant’.

His ‘mother’ was Gaia, Earth.

He would challenge travelers through his land and waters to a wrestling match or pay a huge toll.

As long as he was in contact with his mother, the Earth, he could not be defeated.

Then one day Hercules/Heracles came through on his way to one of his assigned labors and so had to wrestle with him.

Hercules soon discovered that when he held Antaeus off the ground he became weak, so he held him completely off the ground and killed him with a bear hug...................

[Georgia Girl 2]

There’s wrestling and then there’s wrestling. 😉

[Red Badger]

The Greeks loved their wrestling!.....................

[MikelTackNailer]

To read about a find recovered from a third-century a.d. man's grave in southeastern Bulgaria, go to "Bath Buddy."

Sounds like another "educator's" tactic to trick youth into looking at their perverted agenda. Or a deleted chapter from one of Obama's biographies.

[SunkenCiv]

Well, Phil got married a lot. Had a lotta wives. At the same time. So, y’know, he didn’t do so badly. 😊

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[snip] Among the objects buried with him were a tool used to scrape oil from the skin known as a strigil and a finely crafted copper alloy vessel called a balsamarium. This container is thought to have held skin-cleansing oils or balms used after exercise and during bathing... [/snip]

[Georgia Girl 2]

😅