Excavation of Archaeological Sites in Varna (March 19, 2015)

Bulgarian archaeologists work at newly discovered giant skeleton at the main street in the downtown of the Black sea town of Varna, east of the capital Sofia, Thursday, March, 19, 2015Bulgarian archaeologists have made an interesting find while performing rescue excavations of the ancient Greek city of Odessos under what is now the modern city of Varna, Bulgaria, on the shores of the Black Sea.?While digging out the base of a recently discovered section of the ancient Ossesos fortress wall, archaeologists uncovered the skeleton of a man who has been described by the head of the project, Dr. Valeri Yotov, as "a very tall man" with "impressive" bones though no estimation of the man's height in life has been released.?The skeleton was found to be buried partially beneath the wall at a depth indicating a pit that was some 3 meters deep at the time of his burial, which researchers believe to have occurred in the 4th or 5th centuries AD.?Photo by:Petar Petrov /Impact Press Grouop/