Ancient
Deep Dive: Did Banned Pagan Worship Continue in Thrace?
IVAYLOVGRAD, BULGARIA—La Brújula Verde reports that a Thracian temple decorated with a relief thought to depict three nymphs and the mother goddess Cybele has been found at the site of Balak Dere, which is located in southeastern Bulgaria near the Arda River. The temple was built in the third century A.D. Ivaylo Kanev of Bulgaria’s National Museum said that it seems people continued to conduct pagan rites at the temple into the middle of the fifth century, after they had been outlawed by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in A.D.
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