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An expedition of Bulgarian scientist lead by Professor Nikolay Ovcharov, will start excavations to search Orpheus grave.

The historians promised sensational findings. They will explore the biggest rock tomb on the Balkans. It is situated near the Bulgarian Tatul village.

The tomb was disclosed 75 years ago by Bulgarian Professor Venedikov. There is a whole complex of other images and constructions in the vicinity of the tomb: a ritual stairway on the tomb's lower part. Solar circles are hollowed out there, as well as ritual benches.

Orpheus is said to have come from Bulgaria's southern Rhodope Mountains. He is also believed to have been buried there.

Source: SofiaNEWS

Who killed Orpheus?
There are several versions for the death og the famous tracian musician Orpheus. The most popular among them states that tracian girls dismembered his body or burried him with stones. According to this legend, the tracian girls saw Orpheus as a threat because he convinced their men to follow him on his wondering journeys. While drunk with wine, he is said to have been murdered.

Other sources claim that the women of ancient Trace and Macedonia decapitated Orpheus with a copper blade and threw his head or even entire body in the tracian sea (Aegiean). Possible motive is the fact that Orpheus' misfortune in love made him an enemy of the female sex. Others claim that he segregated women from his religious ceremonies or that even encouraged the tracians to be homosexual.

A common thread in all versions is the separation of the two sexes in ancient societies. Whether or not the body of Orpheus was thrown in the Aegian Sea, or was burried in one of the many tracian tombs in the Tatul village, in the eastern Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria, remains to be seen. OCEAN PLANET will follow the expedition and bring you news as we get them.

Каtia Sokolova - Аrchaeology Museum Varna