Runica Bulgarica

        The entrance of the burial chambers C 1 and C 2 is located 6 m. to the west and 5 m. down from the entrance of the church B 1. The first of them, C 1, is dug in the hill immediately after the arched opening and has an ovoid plan, with its sharp end facing north. C 2 is connected to C 1 by another arcuate hole formed in the base. Access to this part of the complex at the time of its discovery was blocked by a stone wall. Romanian archaeologists have found three skeletons there, two in C 1 and one in C 2. According to Ion Barnea, the C complex was residential before being converted into a tomb. Funerary rooms C1 and C2. General plan. Of the two "C" rooms, only the walls of C 1 contain engravings and inscriptions. In this respect, the eastern wall to the right of the entrance to C 2 is the richest. The panel incised there consists of engraved dragons (with heads and without heads), other mythical animals, crosses and numerous inscriptions. It was documented both...

                 Romanian archaeologists have divided the area of ​​the complex into sectors marked with letters of the alphabet, starting from the north with the letter A. Sector A was destroyed in the industrial extraction of chalk before the discovery of the Cave Complex. Only traces of dwellings dug terraced on the slope of the hill were found at the beginning of the excavations. Those buildings were just 15 meters from the entrance of rock church B1. The surviving part of the Murfatlar Cave Complex can be divided into three groups of buildings. Church B1 and funeral rooms C1-C2 are located in the northeastern part of the Complex. To the west of them stay the co-called "Peninsula" where Churches B2, B3 and B4, rooms and galleries were dug. Another group of caves was found 50 meters south, where some of the “E” buildings survived: Churches B3, B5, some corridors, burial chambers and galleries.    Church B1. General plan Chur...