Archaeologists Discover Pink-Plastered Water Cistern of Medieval Rusocastro Fortress in Southeast Bulgaria

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Bulgaria: Archaeologists Discover Pink-Plastered Water Cistern of Medieval Rusocastro Fortress in Southeast Bulgaria An aerial view of the newly excavated ruins of the water cistern of the medieval Byzantine and Bulgarian fortress Rusocastro in Southeast Bulgaria. Photo: Burgas Regional Museum of History via ArchaeologyinBulgaria.com

Archaeologists have discovered a huge water cistern plastered on the inside with pink waterproof mortar in the fortress of Rusocastro, a major stronghold which changed hands many times between the Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires in the Middle Ages, and whose ruins are stiuated in today’s Burgas District in Southeast Bulgaria.

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