ARCHAEOLOGY /page 1/

    In this section are kept pieces from the period of the VI millennium BC till the end of the Second Bulgarian kingdom. They give us the opportunity to trace the material and spiritual culture of the inhabitants of the region. The exhibits have been grouped in the following collections:

- pre-historic tools made of stone, flint and horn, including stone axes, hammers and claw-hammers, flint graters, spuds and awls

- anthropomorphic and zoomorphic idol clay figures


 
 



- a collection of clay vessels different in form and function - pre-historic, Hellenic, Roman, early Byzantine and medieval

- art is represented in a collection of works of clay figures, the most characteristic of which are: a torso of the God Aesculapius, a statuary group of the god Dionysus and his suite, inscriptions, ritual plates and a collection of bronze figures where the statue of the god Hermes stands out.
 
 


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