Archaeologists discover monumental building in Bulgarian medieval town of Rusokastro

Baku, October 29, AZERTAC A monumental building measuring 7. 60 metres in width and with undetermined length has been discovered at the medieval town of Rusokastro at the very end of this year’s archaeological excavations, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) reported citing the Regional History Museum in Burgas. The building is located near the inner southern fortress wall. Its walls are 1. 1 metres thick and are constructed of stone bonded with abundant mortar. The interior surfaces of the walls are covered with a thick layer of pink hydrophobic (waterproof) mortar. This suggests that the building was used either as a water reservoir or as a storage facility for food supplies.

Archeologists believe this was the ground floor of a building situated in the central quarter of the city, and a second, residential floor existed above it. A vast number of archaeological artefacts have been uncovered, including silver coins issued during the reign of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Alexander, Venetian silver grosso coins known as matapans, copper coins, and many other objects. These finds are already undergoing cleaning and conservation at the restoration laboratory of the Burgas Museum. The archaeological excavations of the medieval town of Rusokastro are funded by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria and Kameno Municipality. The excavations are carried out by the Regional History Museum of Burgas. For the first time the name Rusokastro was used by the Arab geographer El Idrisi in his work “Geography of the world”. He described the settlement of Rusokastro as a large…