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What is actually Perpericon?

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What is actually Perpericon?

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This is the most important archeological discovery made in Bulgaria in the last decades. I must say that it has not been completely unveiled yet as excavations are likely to continue for a long time. There were previous attempts to start explorations at the hill called Perpericon, some 250km southeast of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, that was earlier known for the ruins of a mediaeval fortress. However, all of these attempts failed. Until 2000 when our expedition, poorly subsidized by the New Bulgarian University, made discoveries that stirred great media interest. What we found at Perpericon is a dead city entirely graved into the rocks. It was dated back to ancient times. The city is divided in four basic parts whereby I do not include the numerous satellite settlements in the vicinity of Perpericon. On the hilltop, there is an ancient fortress – an acropolis – which walls are 2.8 to 3m thick made of huge stone blocks. They have been so precisely polished to fit that no cement has been u

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