{"id":1493,"date":"2020-12-18T20:45:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T18:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pontfoundation.org\/horse-shoulder-blade-with-mysterious-magic-ritual-marks-from-ca-1300-ad-discovered-in-rusocastro-fortress-in-southeast-bulgaria-2\/"},"modified":"2020-12-18T20:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T18:45:33","slug":"horse-shoulder-blade-with-mysterious-magic-ritual-marks-from-ca-1300-ad-discovered-in-rusocastro-fortress-in-southeast-bulgaria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pontfoundation.org\/en\/horse-shoulder-blade-with-mysterious-magic-ritual-marks-from-ca-1300-ad-discovered-in-rusocastro-fortress-in-southeast-bulgaria-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Shoulder Blade with Mysterious \u2018Magic\u2019 Ritual Marks from ca. 1300 AD Discovered in Rusocastro Fortress in Southeast Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Horse Shoulder Blade with Mysterious \u2018Magic\u2019 Ritual Marks from ca. 1300 AD Discovered in Rusocastro Fortress in Southeast Bulgaria<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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A horse scapula, i.e. a shoulder blade bone, with traces from eating and bizarre traces of burning from ca. 1300 AD, meaning it might have been used in some kind of mysterious and thus far unknown \u201cmagic” ritual, has been discovered in the Rusocastro Fortress in Southeast Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

The horse scapula, or shoulder blade, in question is from the end of the 13th<\/sup> century or the beginning of the 14th<\/sup> century, the Regional Museum of History in the Black Sea city of Burgas has announced.<\/p>\n

The 2020 archaeological excavations of Rusocastro \u2013 the largest medieval fortress and castle in today\u2019s Southeast Bulgaria, a long-time stronghold of both the medieval Bulgarian Empire and the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire \u2013 were completed in October.<\/p>\n

They have led to the full unearthing of the foundations of what was a huge hexagonal central fortress tower, or a keep<\/a>, among other discoveries \u2013 including a large fragment from the eastern fortress wall and a previously unknown rectangular tower on the outer fortress wall.<\/p>\n

The Rusocastro Fortress<\/a> is best known for the Battle of Rusocastro in 1332 AD. It was the last big military victory of the medieval Bulgarian Empire before it was conquered by the invading Ottoman Turks at the end of the 14th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In it, Tsar Ivan Alexander (r. 1331-1371) of the Second Bulgarian Empire defeated Byzantine Emperor Andronicus III Palaeologus (Andronikos III Palaiologos) (r. 1328-1341 AD).<\/p>\n

The horse shoulder blade bone with traces from a potentially unknown medieval magic ritual has been among the numerous animal bones discovered by the Bulgarian archaeologist in the Rusocastro Fortress in the 2020 digs. However, the traces from a potential ritual have been noticed during the subsequent analysis of all bones.<\/p>\n

The Burgas Museum of History points out that every single animal bone found in Rusocastro gets studied meticulously after the archaeological excavations.<\/p>\n

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