The solemn meeting of the University Senate: Prof. Ivan Biliarsky, Prof. Susana Reboreda Morillo (Universidad de la Rioja, Fac. de Historia), Prof. Anna-Maria Totomanova, Prof. Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova. Three Bulgarian scientists were awarded with the Universitatis Lodziensis Amico Medal by the University of Lodz, Poland on 14 October. These are Prof. Mariyana Tsibranska, DSc (Institute of Bulgarian Language, BAS), Prof. Ivan Biliarsky, DSc (Institute of Historical Studies, BAS) and Prof. Anna-Maria Totomanova, DSc (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"). The awards were presented at a ceremony at the University of Lodz where the Rector's insignia were given. The ceremony was also attended by the Bulgarian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland, Margarita Ganeva. The award is a recognition for both the scientists and the institutions where they [...]

  The exhibition "The Literary Heritage in the Library of the Bulgarian Exarchate in Istanbul" has been opened today at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The exposition presents the activities of the Central Library of BAS in the period September 2024-September 2025 under the "Development and Promotion of Bulgarian Studies Abroad" NSP. The exhibition was opened by the Director of the Central Library of BAS, Dr. Silviya Naydenova, who noted that thanks to an agreement between the library and the Bulgarian Exarchate in Istanbul, an inventory of the books in the Exarchate library had been made. The collection of books available to the Bulgarian Exarchate in Istanbul is remarkable and rich, said Dr. Silviya Naydenova, adding that the oldest book found by the researchers dated [...]

The exhibition “Fake (f)or Real? A History of Forgeries and Falsifications", a project of the European Parliament implemented by the House of European History in Brussels, is visiting the National Ethnographic Museum of BAS until 20 October 2024. Vice President Iliana Iotova opened the exhibition which presented examples of forgeries from the European Middle Ages to the present day. "This exhibition is not addressed to the past, it is extremely topical nowadays because we have not yet found the ways to fight fake news, disinformation, lies, how to distinguish the truth from half-truths," the Vice President said in her address and thanked the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with the Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and its director, Prof. Vladimir Penchev, [...]

An archaeological team led by Prof. Dr. Lyudmil Vagalinski (NAIM-BAS) discovered on July 3, 2024 a well-preserved statue in the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica, near the village of Rupite, municipality of Petrich. According to an initial estimate (the front part of the sculpture is still hardly visible), it represents the god Hermes and was carved from a block of marble in the II century AD. The statue survived a violent earthquake at the very end of the IV century after which it was hidden in a defunct Roman canal because of tensions between pagans and early Christians. Christianity was declared in 380 to be the only permitted religion in the Roman Empire. The statue will be on display at the Petrich History Museum.