Learn more about the team of Provadia-Solnitsata

The salt-making and urban center of Provadia-Solnitsata is already world-famous, thanks to the persistent efforts of the archaeological team led by Prof. Vassil Nikolov, Ph.D, Sc.D., Full member of BAS of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. During the first season of field research (2005) the team numbered just four archaeologists; in the current archaeological season at the Saltworks, a total of 15 specialists are working - archaeologists, conservators-restorers, a bio-archaeologist and a palaeobotanist. Over the years the core team of the National Institute and Museum of Archaeology at BAS and the Historical Museum in Provadia has changed somewhat, and today it includes established scholars, younger archaeologists, doctoral students, museum experts and restorers: Assistant Prof. Galina Samitchkova, PhD, Petar Leshtakov, Nikolay Hristov, Todor Dyakov, Sevdalina Zhecheva, Stoyan Trifonov, Violeta Stoitsova, Deniz Kaya, PhD (Notre Dame, USA), Orhan Kaya, Prof. Kathleen McSweeney, PhD (Edinburgh, UK), Maria Slavkova and Prof. Valentin Todorov. These are the people who have succeeded in “deciphering” the unwritten past of the Saltworks and in demonstrating the enormous importance of this complex for Europe’s prehistory. We also work with archaeology students, fellow archaeologists and specialists from other scientific fields.