In November, the guest speaker at the museum will be Dr. Strahil Panayotov from the Institute for Historical Studies at the BAS.
It comes to us in connection with the temporary exhibition "Cuneiform", which shows for the first time an unusual object from our collection - a Sumerian cuneiform tile. Dr. Panayotov is the one who reads the tile and thus reveals its incredible story to us.
In his lecture, Dr. Panayotov will take a closer look at one of the first writing systems created by humans - cuneiform, which appeared around 7000 years ago in Mesopotamia.

A little more about the guest speaker:
Dr. Strahil Panayotov completed his MA in Assyriology, Egyptology and Near Eastern Archeology at the Ruperto Carola University Heidelberg, Germany in 2009. Just four years later, he successfully defended his PhD in Assyriology and Ancient History at the University of St. . Kliment Ohridski". He has extensive teaching and professional experience and is the author of numerous publications on cuneiform, Babylonian medicine and magic. Dr. Panayotov is an assistant at the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and in the period 2020 - 2023 he is also the curator of Assyrian Medicine at the British Museum, London.

About the event:
Date: November 10, 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Place: Conference hall in the Regional Archaeological Museum - Plovdiv
Admission: Free!
It will be good if you reserve your place by phone 032/624 339, on the museum's social networks or on the spot.

The lecture is free, but if you want to visit the museum before it, you will have to pay an entrance fee. Prices are as follows:
- regular ticket - BGN 6
- students and pensioners - BGN 2
- family ticket (families with children up to 16 years old) - BGN 10.
- children up to 7 years old and visitors with special needs - free of charge

We are expecting you!