The Bacho Kiro cave (Bulgarian: пещера „Бачо Киро“) is situated 5 km (3.1 mi) west of the town Dryanovo, Bulgaria, only 300 m (980 ft) away from the Dryanovo Monastery. It is embedded in the canyons of the Andaka and Dryanovo River. It was opened in 1890 and the first recreational visitors entered the cave in 1938, two years before it was renamed in honor of Bulgarian National Revival leader, teacher and revolutionary Bacho Kiro. The cave is a four-storey labyrinth of galleries and corridors with a total length of 3,600 m (11,800 ft), 700 m (2,300 ft) of which are maintained for public access and equipped with electrical lights since 1964. An underground river has over time carved out the many galleries that contain countless stalactone, stalactite, and stalagmite speleothem formations of great beauty. Galleries and caverns of a 1,200 m (3,900 ft) long section have been musingly named as a popular description of this fairy-tale underground world. The formations succession: Bacho Kiro’s Throne, The Dwarfs, The Sleeping Princess, The Throne Hall, The Reception Hall, The Haidouti Meeting-Ground, The Fountain and the Sacrificial Altar.[1][2]
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The BachoKirocave (Bulgarian: пещера „Бачо Киро“) is situated 5 km (3.1 mi) west of the town Dryanovo, Bulgaria, only 300 m (980 ft) away from the Dryanovo...
BachoKiro (Bulgarian: Бачо Киро) (7 July 1835 – 28 May 1876) was the nickname of Kiro Petrov Zanev (Киро Петров Занев), a Bulgarian teacher, man of letters...
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have been directly dated are from 46,000 to 44,000 years ago in the BachoKirocave, located in present-day Bulgaria. They are associated with the Initial...
recovered from this period are not related to later samples. They ended in BachoKirocave and Oase, but this wave of colonization did not go as far as Western...
14C chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at BachoKiroCave, Bulgaria". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4 (6): 794–801. Bibcode:2020NatEE...
left a serious DNA mark among the Balkan populations of today. The BachoKiroCave has yielded the oldest human remains ever to be found in Bulgaria which...
et al. (11 May 2020). "Initial Upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens from BachoKiroCave, Bulgaria" (PDF). Nature. 581 (7808): 299–302. Bibcode:2020Natur.581...
with the remains of the Ust'-Ishim man from Siberia, and the Oase and BachoKirocave specimens in southeastern Europe, and represent early inland migrations...
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specimens found in Central Asia and Europe, such as the Ust'-Ishim man, BachoKirocave or Oase 2, are inferred to have used inland routes, the ancestors of...
radiocarbon and DNA analysis from the fossils that has been found in the BachoKirocave, Bulgaria. The result, showing that the fossils belong to Homo sapiens...
snails (Columbella rustica, Cyclope neritea), and other species. BachoKirocave Douka, Katerina; Higham, Thomas FG; Wood, Rachel; Boscato, Paolo (2014)...
fragmented pair of human jaws, which are 44,000 years old, were found in BachoKirocave, but it is disputed whether these early humans were in fact Homo sapiens...
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