site.btaUnderwater Archaeological Researchers to Study Cape Chiroza

Underwater archaeological research has begun at Cape Chiroza in the Fisherman port Chengene Skele, said the Burgas Regional History Museum on Wednesday. Detailed studies of the seabed will be carried out by the team of Prof Ivan Hristov from the Sofia National History Museum. 

Since 2020, underwater archaeologists have been working in the area, where a ship has shipwrecked in the late 18th or early 19th century. The Burgas Museum, which organizes the underwater research, recalled that on the first days of the study researchers discovered fancy glassware and several whole glass cups and ceramic vessels from the late Hellenistic era on the sunken ship, which most likely traveled from Italy.

Burgas Municipality finances the underwater research.