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A team of the Archaeological Museum in Plovdiv opened a 10-meter treasure tunnel during excavations of the Great Mound from the Necropolis, known as the Dense Mounds, registered at the beginning of the last century in the Plovdiv region of Yuzhen. This was announced by the head of the archaeologists Lyubomir Merdjanov.
The tunnel is dug by hand and is about a meter high and wide. Traces of picks can still be seen on it, although it was probably dug in the 1990s during the large treasury raids, Merdjanov commented. Whether anything has been exported on it, archaeologists can not say yet.
During the excavations so far, the team found a colorful mural with letters, probably not in Cyrillic, trenches from the walls of a building that on this floor is supposed to be a late medieval church, and 4 burials from the same time.
In the heart of the mound, however, the central burial is still expected to be found, which is why the mound was built. It is believed to be from the Roman era.
The necropolis, part of which is the Great Mound, starts north of the OC South in the Southern Industrial Zone and reaches Saturday Market and in 4Kyuchuk Paris. Some of the 50 mounds in it have been destroyed in the past without being studied. The excavations are now on the last remaining mound and continue until August 6.
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