We are pleased to invite you to the official opening of the exhibition "Tracking the Dog Echoes from Ancient Thrace" on May 17, 2025 (Saturday) at 16:30 at the Paleontological Museum "Dimitar Kovachev" - Asenovgrad (A branch of the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). The event is part of the museum's program in the "European Night of Museums 2025" and will present the relationship between the dog and man in Ancient Thrace, exploring data from written sources, iconographic monuments and archaeozoological remains. Visitors will be able to view finds of dogs from Antiquity, discovered during archaeological research in different parts of the country.

The exhibition is organized in implementation of the project of the Institute of Balkan Studies with Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences "Corpus Animalium Thracicorum: a digital corpus of the Thracian land’s fauna (1000 BC - AD 500)", funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria under contract No. KП-06-M90/2 of 10.12.2024.