БИЛ ЛИ Е АСКЛЕПИЙ TРAKИЙСКО ЗДРАВЕНОСНО БОЖЕСТВО И МЕДИК?
IS ASKLEPIUS A THRACIAN HEALTH DEITY AND MEDIC?

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the current article is to present contemporary historical and archaeological facts, which prove the hypothesis for the prehistoric Thracian roots of the Asklepios cult. Тhis fundamental question of ancient history in need of clarification has been inherited from the doyenne of history of medicine acad. Apostolov. In connection with the evidentiary material on the subject, we will analyse artefacts and studies, among which is the most ancient Asclepion discovered to date. The medical-religious complex with exposed bas-reliefs with the symbolism of the health-giving deity is dated from the second half of the 4th millennium BC. It was erected around two millennia before the migration of the Greek tribes to the Balkan Peninsula.

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