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- What are you personally currently working on?
- Over the past three months I have been trying to finish a book about Golyamata Kosmatka on occasion of the 10th anniversary of the discovery of this magnificent monument. I am almost at the finish. It was fantastic, as it happened in the course of regular archaeological excavations. Unfortunately, Dr. Kitov passed away quite suddenly and he could not publish it. I am saying that I am trying to finish it because I am involved in the excavations of a mound near the Serbian border and I am in the field. This mound falls within the gas pipeline project between Bulgaria and Serbia and the excavation works are very urgent. I think the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Seuthes III is a good reason to tell your readers that in 2009, six months after Dr. Kitov passed away, an entrepreneurial committee of archaeologists, public figures, journalists undertook to make a monument of Georgi Kitov in Sofia. The plot is already granted, the monument is ready as a project, and the bas-relief is ready and approved. We are awaiting a final approval from the Ministry of Culture, from a special board for plastic arts. We need some more funds for the construction itself. Most of the stone on which the bas-relief will be mounted is paid but we need about 2,000 leva for the finishing works. If someone wants to help, he or she can donate to the following bank account:
Fundraising bank account for building a monument to Georgi Kitov held by the TEMP (Thracian expedition for mound studies) in
Banka DSK - klon Batenberg
IBAN: BG46STSA93000019051808
BIC: STSABGSF
     As everything is settled through the bank the donors are known and their names will be published in a small booklet that we will issue to recall the merits of Georgi Kitov for the Bulgarian archaeology. Golyamata Kosmatka is one of his impressive discoveries but it is far from being the only one in his 42-year professional career. The names of people who have donated 10 or 20 leva will also be included in the brochure that we will circulate as much as possible, as this is support too and it is from the heart.