One day in this beguiling city is enough to explore medieval strongholds, drift between traditional craft shops and soak up Ottoman-era traditions.

A Macedonian movie about a medieval Tsar, who both Macedonia and Bulgaria claim as their own, is causing fresh friction between the two countries. Bulgarian politicians and media have accused the ...

Bulgaria's top archaeologist, Professor Nikolay Ovcharov, presented Wednesday the artifacts and jewelry that he discovered recently in Veliko Tarnovo, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a medieval ring thought to have been used to to commit multiple political murders. The bronze ring is more than 600 years old and was found at the excavation ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. What ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed five gold coins dating to the time of the emperor Justinian the Great (ruled from A.D. 527 to 565). Although it is not unusual to discover coins during ...

The medieval Bulgarian manuscript of the Tsar Ivan Alexander's Tetraevangelia (Four Gospels) will be displayed in Bulgaria. A set of unique Old-Bulgarian manuscripts dating to late medieval times will ...

The archaeologists excavating the Late Antiquity and medieval Byzantine and Bulgarian fortress Kastritsi, which is located in the Euxinograd Residence of the Bulgarian government near the Black Sea ...

SOFIA, BULGARIA—The Sofia Globe reports that a ring has been found in a grave in a church at the site of Kokaliansku Urvich, a medieval fortress. Researchers from the National Archaeological Institute ...

A lead cross, which is also a reliquary, found during the excavations of the Early Byzantine andmedieval Bulgarian city of Missionis, also known as Krum’s Fortress, whose ruins are located near ...

Archaeologists have discovered a ring with an inconspicuous cavity that they believe may have been used to hide poison for political murders in medieval Bulgaria. The bronze ring, which is more than ...