Experts believe that the presence of the seal, along with Byzantine ceramics, proves that the site was a "scriptorium of the Bulgarian royal family in the 9th and 10th century when the Slavic literature was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire." The well-preserved monastery vaults are the only ones found by archaeologists in Bulgaria which date to the Byzantine era.
Byzantine seal found near Varna
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2009-09-03 10:50
Bulgarian archaeologists working at a medieval monastery near the Bulgarian city of Varna have discovered a 10th century Byzantine seal believed to have belonged to an imperial protospatario in Constantinople.
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