2024
This is the second season of our journey!
Welcome to our volunteers!
First group arrived in Petrich town and our journey started with on-arrival training : to knowing each others and set rules for our life together.
After that: explore culture, history and instructions how will organize our work.
About Heraclea Sintica
The ancient city of Heraclea Sintica has been among the most attractive archaeological sites in the Balkans in the last 15 years. Ancient Greek and Latin authors, including Homer, Herodotus and Thucydides, wrote about it. And our dream is to discover finds from the father of Alexander the Great.
The city, founded in the 4th century BC in the tribal territory of the Thracian-Sinthians, is named after the mythical hero Heracles (Hercules). In ancient times, Heraclea Sintica was the main city in the northeastern borders of the ancient Macedonian kingdom. From here, Alexander the Great set off on a campaign against neighboring Thracian tribes before conquering the vast Persian Empire.
The find of the season!
And in the very first days of our work, the team of Prof. Lyudmil Vagalinsky made a great find! A statue of a man, carefully stored in the city's basement. The statue is in excellent condition and, unlike many other finds, is intact.
We expect the experts to say who the depicted man is and what the history of the statue is.
What is to be professional...?
How to work with professional equipment? How to read artifacts? How to make a drawing of finds with different dates in time? Guide in the museum? How does the EU support young scientists? ... and many other questions of life
The testy things in the life
Banitsa - traditional bulgarian breakfast (burek as people in Turkey know it, and as we make a joke: Bulgarian version of lasagna), paella, music, good company and amazing friends....
Free time
Birthday, Trips, Exploring the landskape around, sea... the life is beautiful!
Evaluation
The counted days are ending very quickly! At the end we are not only satisfied! One of our participants from Turkey shared that he will enroll in a master's degree in Archaeology, and is currently a student of Architecture.
With great gratitude to all of you, wonderful young people!
Teams in Veliki Preslav and Targovishte town
arrived in the same time - 26 July. All together started on-arrival training in Veliki Preslav town. Treasure hunt game, team building activities, visiting historical places around were are first activities. The group was very colorful: people from Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Latvia, Egypt ... and we set up also plan for the cultural events and presenting each country.
