The kukeri festival (pictured) is a colorful tradition in which men wear intricate costumes and masks depicting mythical ...

"We found it by accident. It was amazing. A whole statue appeared in front of us." Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman ...

(JTA) — Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel did not attend a conference on Bulgarian Holocaust history last week, in a move that organizers said displays her government’s attempts to whitewash ...

Since 2011, February 1 has been marked in Bulgaria as a Day of Gratitude and Homage to the Victims of the Communist Regime, as the largest single spate of executions in Bulgarian history was carried ...

The march stands in contrast to Bulgaria’s own Holocaust history, when the country was one of the few in Eastern Europe to largely protect its own Jews, saving all 48,000 from deportation to ...

Plovdiv, Bulgaria has a long history of design and innovation going back at least 6000 years to cultures like the Thracians, Celts, and Romans. In the last decade it is also an important center ...

This story appear in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... who started surveying the seabed off the coast of Bulgaria. Partnering with maritime archaeologists ...

It’s inextricably linked with Bulgarian history and culture, and a must try when you’re in the area. In the village of Tcherni Vit, make sure you try green cheese-- if you can hunt it down.