Rousse Regional Historical Museum

Collection

• prehistoric pottery and idol plastic arts
• the Borovo Treasure of the 4th century BC
• the finds of excavations of the antique Danube castles Yatrus and Sexaginta Prista, and of the medieval Bulgarian city Cherven
• a collection of medieval frescoes
• a collection of exhibits of traditional lifestyle
• a collection of urban clothing, china, glass, and silver from the end of the 19th — beginning of the 20th century
• personal belongings of notable figures from the struggle for national liberation
• a numismatic collection
• a collection of bones from prehistoric mammals, including a unique lower jaw of a Mammuthus rumanus
• a bronze helmet from 4th-3rd century BC, which it is suggested may have belonged to one of the soldiers of Alexander the Great. The helmet was contributed in August 2006 by the Bobokovi brothers, major shareholders of the Prista Oil company. The time and place where the helmet was found was not publicly revealed.

• the Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
• the Medieval city of Cherven
• the Roman castle of Sexaginta Prista

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