May
18
/ 2013
On a remote island near the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria lies Apollonia Pontica, an ancient Greek colony that was buried over 2000 years ago. Excavation work being carried out by a team of archaeologists, students and volunteers led by the National Institute of Archaeology and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, is beginning to reveal its hidden secrets. The Greek settlement, founded by Miletian colonists during the 7 th Century BC and ruled by Thracian kings became a prosperous city through its trade in copper, gold, olives, wine and other goods. It was here, on the small island of St Kirik near the coastal town of Sozopol, that a well-known 12 metre high bronze statue of Apollo once stood. The
