{"id":56398,"date":"2025-05-15T17:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=56398"},"modified":"2025-05-15T17:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:01:22","slug":"unique-gladiator-helmet-studied-at-the-institute-of-physical-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=56398&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Unique gladiator helmet studied at the Institute of Physical Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/shlem.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56389 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/shlem-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/shlem-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/shlem-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/shlem-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/shlem-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/shlem-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/shlem-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/shlem.jpg 732w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Valuable cultural and historical artifacts, rescued and returned to the country with the support of international partners, were presented on May 14 at the Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ceremony of the presentation of the artifacts was attended by the Minister of Culture Marian Bachev, the Deputy Minister Dr. Todor Chobanov, the Ambassador of Switzerland to Bulgaria H.E. Raymund Furrer and the Deputy Head of the German Mission in Sofia Stephan R\u00f6ken. The main highlight of the exposition is a unique gladiator\u2019s helmet dating back to the middle of the 1st century AD estimated at a market value of about 3 million euros.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The physicochemical studies of the helmet used for its complex characterization were carried out in the laboratories of the Institute of Physical Chemistry. The equipment was provided by the <strong>INFRAMAT<\/strong> project, part of the National Roadmap for Scientific Infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Valuable cultural and historical artifacts, rescued and returned to the country with the support of international partners, were presented on May 14 at the Ministry of Culture. The ceremony of the presentation of the artifacts was attended by the Minister of Culture Marian Bachev, the Deputy Minister Dr. Todor Chobanov, the Ambassador of Switzerland to Bulgaria H.E. Raymund Furrer and the Deputy Head of the German Mission in Sofia Stephan R\u00f6ken. The main highlight of the exposition is a unique gladiator\u2019s helmet dating back to the middle of the 1st century AD estimated at a market value of about 3 million euros. The physicochemical studies of the helmet used for its complex characterization were carried out in the laboratories of the Institute of Physical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=56398&#038;lang=en\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":56390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56399,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56398\/revisions\/56399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}