Abstract:
The archaeoseismology is a new emerging discipline in Bulgaria during the last decades. Its subject is to study the seismic effects generated by earthquakes to the archaeology artefacts – monuments, buildings, churches, bastions, etc., as well as to the settlements and ancient cities and villages, port facilities, etc. As a country with a lot of existing archaeology objects, located in areas influenced by local and regional seismic events, many effects is possible to be detected by specialists. The paper deals with the observed and studied seismic effects to single or multiple ancient facilities. New results established during the last-years Bulgarian-Russian field expeditions together with the high professionals in the field of archaeoseismology revealed many new and unexpected data and information about ancient seismic events and their parameters – predominantly time of occurrence, magnitude and less accurate location of their sources. Combining the information from different disciplines like archaeology, geodynamics, neotectonics and seismology a lot of useful data was extracted thus providing new input about the seismic zoning of Bulgaria.