Post by TheTravelBug on Dec 13, 2010 17:57:15 GMT
This could be the plot for a new movie, but its actually a true story set near the village of Sitovo, on the northern slopes of the Rhodope mountains, in Bulgaria.
The area was once a Pomak territory, where Bulgarians who had converted to Muslim under the Ottoman rule lived. The Pmak's had slaughtered a large number of Christians around Batak and feared reprisals once the 1912 Balkan wars liberated the country and Christian rule took over. So the Pomaks fled their village.
The inscription is on the roof of a megalith perched between two cliffs. Its meaning and its author are unknown. Various ideas have been put forward, including that it marked buried treasure but no expedition or excavation found anything.
One doctor, Dr Peev, who led an expedition there became a spy for the Bulgarian military, allied with the Nazis in 1940. He was arrested in 1943 and at his trial various documents were produced, including parts of the mysterious inscriptions, thought to be a secret code for passing information.
The Sitovo inscription has never been deciphered although some scientists now claim it is just a natural phenomena.
The area was once a Pomak territory, where Bulgarians who had converted to Muslim under the Ottoman rule lived. The Pmak's had slaughtered a large number of Christians around Batak and feared reprisals once the 1912 Balkan wars liberated the country and Christian rule took over. So the Pomaks fled their village.
The inscription is on the roof of a megalith perched between two cliffs. Its meaning and its author are unknown. Various ideas have been put forward, including that it marked buried treasure but no expedition or excavation found anything.
One doctor, Dr Peev, who led an expedition there became a spy for the Bulgarian military, allied with the Nazis in 1940. He was arrested in 1943 and at his trial various documents were produced, including parts of the mysterious inscriptions, thought to be a secret code for passing information.
The Sitovo inscription has never been deciphered although some scientists now claim it is just a natural phenomena.