On Monday, 27 April 2026, the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB) invites you to the 51st ArchaeoSciences seminar. This edition’s guest speaker is Dr. Todor Valchev from the Regional Historical Museum – Yambol, who will present a lecture titled “The burial mounds necropolis near Mogila village, Yambol district, South-east Bulgaria”.
The seminar will take place starting at 11:00 (EET) at the at the Seminar classroom (former Herbarium) of the Faculty of Biology building at the Botanical Garden (Intrarea Portocalelor no. 3, basement floor).
About the presentation
The aim of this lecture is to present the results from the excavations of the burial mounds in Golemia Kayryak near Mogila village, Yambol district. It’s situated on an elevated rocky spur about 750 m long and 250 m wide, overlooking the Mochuritsa River Valley, a left tributary of the Tundzha River. The necropolis was composed of six burial mounds, of which five were excavated.
The eastern-most situated mound no. 1 was placed on the edge of a ridge, in an area of a future quarry. It was excavated in 2004 with the primary graves dated to the Early Bronze Age and secondary graves from the Middle Bronze Age and Medieval period. Another four mounds, nos. 2–5, were grouped together in the central part of the ridge, about 370 m to the west of mound no. 1, placed just tens of meters from each other. From these, mounds nos. 4 and 5 were excavated in 2018, with the primary graves dated to the Roman Imperial period. Mound no. 3 was excavated in 2022, with the primary graves from the Early Bronze Age and secondary graves from the Late Bronze and Late Iron Age. In 2025, mound no. 2 was excavated, with a primary grave from the Roman Age. The last mound, no. 6, is the western-most mound of the necropolis, situated on the western end of the ridge, about 140 m from the central group. The mound has not yet been excavated.
The chronological diversity in the necropolis causes scientific interest, the sacredness of the place – which was used for funerary rites from the Early Bronze Age to the medieval period – being obvious.
Dr. Todor Valchev is an archaeologist at the Regional Historical Museum – Yambol, Bulgaria. His scientific interests include the development of the Bronze Age societies in the Balkan Peninsula.
These seminars are an original initiative of the ArchaeoSciences Platform (ASp) at ICUB, which aims to provide an open space for professionals in archaeological sciences worldwide to share knowledge and engage with the latest methodological and theoretical advances in the study of the past. They also offer Romanian students a valuable opportunity to discover the interdisciplinary dimensions of archaeology and archaeosciences.
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