On May 16, 2022 at 17:00 in the Great Hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences a celebration on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Thracology at the BAS, now Centre of Thracology "Prof. Alexander Fol”at IBSCT-BAS will be held. Among the foreign guests at the jubilee celebration are Prof. M. Sayar, President of the International Council of Indo-European and Thracian Studies, and Professor O. Picard, a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts.

The official program includes presentation of three editions: the book specially prepared for the event, containing researches of more than 30 scholars who have worked or are currently working in IT / CT. The collective volume is compiled and edited by the acting Head of the CT Assoc. Prof. Ivo Topalilov, PhD. Another edition is the collective monograph on cinnabar in Thracian and Roman culture in the Bulgarian lands by Prof. Dr. Valeria Fol, as well as the next issue of Thracia, dedicated to Prof. V. Fol, compiled by Prof. Vanya Stancheva-Lozanova, D.A.

Two exhibitions in the central foyer of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences will accompany the celebration - "50 years since the establishment of the Institute of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences" and "Thracology and other sciences".