The team of Professor Hitko Vachev and Iliyan Petrakiev has located the necropolis of a medieval monastery associated with St Theodosius of Tarnovo near Samovodene. RegNews reported the findings on October 19, citing the archaeologists from the Regional History Museum in Veliko Tarnovo.<\/p>\n
The site lies below today's Holy Trinity Monastery. Research so far has covered the main Church of St Nicholas, while the necropolis opens another direction for investigating the complex.<\/p>\n
According to the report, the excavated church is protected by a roof structure provided through a donation from Bulgaria's Electricity System Operator. This helps preserve the remains as work at the site continues.<\/p>\n
The archaeologists discuss the possibility that the grave of St Roman of Tarnovo may lie in the necropolis or in the church's narthex. This is a hypothesis for future investigation, not an announcement that a grave has been discovered or identified.<\/p>\n
RegNews \u2014 October 19, 2026, 13:51<\/a><\/p>\n Illustrative photograph: Grianghraf \/ Unsplash \u2014 tools and soil, not the excavations near Samovodene. Cropped to 1200\u00d7675 px. Photographer<\/a> \u00b7 Unsplash licence<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The team of Professor Hitko Vachev and Iliyan Petrakiev has located the necropolis of a medieval monastery associated with St Theodosius of Tarnovo near Samovodene. RegNews reported the findings on October 19, citing the archaeologists from the Regional History Museum in Veliko Tarnovo.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[16,41],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veliko-tarnovo","category-kultura","tag-aktualno","tag-aktsenti-ot-denya"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}