Egyptian temple unearthed near the Bulgarian Black Sea
Archaeologists have uncovered what is thought to be the remains of a temple complex dedicated to Isis and Osiris in the Paleokastro area, near Pomorie on the Bulgarian Black Sea. The temple was built during the era of Emperor Antoninus Pius around the second century AD, though it was built itself on the remains of a sanctuary from the Thracian era.
The Thracians were an Indo-European tribe that occupied the lands of present-day Bulgaria, northern Greece, part of the Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, eastern Serbia and north-west Turkey from about 2000 BCE to about the sixth century AD.
The temple complex is the first such to be found in an archaeological dig. Until the discovery of the temple plot, the only evidence of worship of Isis and Osiris to have been found on Bulgarian territory had been in written form.
