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Project Description

This pro­ject, led by the Balkan Her­it­age Found­a­tion and the Na­tion­al Ar­chae­olo­gic­al In­sti­tute at the Bul­gari­an Academy of Sci­ences, tackles the dif­fi­culty of ac­cess­ing in­form­a­tion on Thra­cian tombs from the 4th and 3rd cen­tur­ies BC.

These tombs are scattered across mod­ern-day Bul­gari­a, north­east­ern Greece, and west­ern Tur­key. In the past 150 years, over 2,000 Thra­cian tombs have been dis­covered in Bul­garia alone. However, many find­ings re­main un­pub­lished or are hard to ac­cess due to lan­guage bar­ri­er­s, hinder­ing in­ter­na­tion­al re­search ef­forts.

Thanks to the gen­er­ous sup­port of the J.M. Ka­plan Fun­d, the pro­ject aims to foster col­lab­or­a­tion in study­ing and pre­serving these sites by provid­ing ac­cess to rel­ev­ant in­form­a­tion. The pro­ject ini­tially fo­cuses on about 70 tombs in cent­ral-eastern Bul­gari­a.

Con­ser­va­tion-­Weich­brodt led the tech­nic­al im­ple­ment­a­tion for this pro­ject, de­vel­op­ing the data­base struc­ture and bi­lin­gual setup. This in­vent­ory and man­age­ment tool, based on ARCHES and avail­able in both Eng­lish and Bul­gari­an, serves ar­chae­olo­gist­s, his­tor­i­ans, mu­seum pro­fes­sion­als, and con­ser­vat­or­s.

Keywords:
ar­chae­olo­gic­al sites,
sur­vey & doc­u­ment­a­tion