A golden mask of Thracian King Teres I is housed at the Kazanlak History Museum in Bulgaria. Thracian culture bears the marks of both eastern and western influences. Their elite drinking vessels ...

We know what the Greeks thought of the Thracians, Cole noted, but piecing together Thracian history is a challenge: “how would the Thracians have defined themselves and their own culture?” ...

He brings out one theory which will be novel to most readers, that the Albanians are not the descendants of the ancient Illyrians, but of the Bessi, a tribe of Thracians referred to by several ...

Bulgaria - Archaeologists in southern Bulgaria have located remains of a completely preserved Thracian domed tomb decorated with murals, the daily Trud reported on Monday. The tomb, near the town of ...

"The Thracians are the most powerful people in the world, except, of course, for the Indians,” wrote the fifth-century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus. In citing the Thracians, he was referring ...

Greece dismissed criticism from Turkey over a map presented as a gift to Patriarch Bartholomew, saying the gift was "purely ...

a Thracian woman whose name is lost to history. The writer Plutarch, who lived in the second century A.D., wrote that she "was a prophetess who was possessed by ecstatic frenzies that were part of ...