Trilingual exhibition "Egyptian Cults by the Black Sea" visits the Ethnographic Museum

Regional Historical Museum – Burgas and the Institute of Balkan Studies with the Center for Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences present the trilingual poster exhibition “Egyptian Cults around the Black Sea / Cultes égyptiens en Mer Noire / Egyptian Cults around the Black Sea”. The exhibition is part of the scientific project “Thrace and Egypt in the Greco-Roman World”, led by Senior Assistant Professor Dr. Vessela Atanasova (IBCT–BAS). The exhibition will be located on the fence of the Ethnographic Museum - Burgas (69 Slavyanska Street) and will be available for viewing from November 1, 2025. The posters present monuments from the ancient cities on the Black Sea coast: Chersonese Tauride (Crimea), Olbia (Parutino, Ukraine), Tiras (Belgorod-Dniester, Ukraine), Tomi (Constanta, Romania), Apollonia Pontica (Sozopol, Bulgaria), Messambria (Nessebar, Bulgaria), Odessos (Varna, Bulgaria), Byzantium (Istanbul, Turkey), Vani (Georgia), etc.
They are grouped into seven sections – epigraphic monuments, bone objects, terracotta, bronze, sculpture, gems and rings, coins – and illustrate the penetration of Egyptian religious practices into the region. The exhibition traces the early connections between the Black Sea region and Ancient Egypt – from the beginning of the 1st millennium BC, when the first Egyptian amulets appeared in the Greek colonies, to the Ptolemaic period, when the cults of the deities from the Nile Valley spread throughout the eastern Mediterranean world and reached the Euxine Pontus.
The exhibition “Egyptian Cults by the Black Sea” can be viewed in Bulgarian, English and French.

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