Today the National Museum Man and Earth in Sofia takes out on display, for the 22^nd year in a row, its “Stone from Hiroshima”. This is done to mark the Day of Charity and Empathy with the victims of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The “Stone from Hiroshima” is a piece of granite from the street pavement in Hiroshima, which on August 6, 1945 was close to the epicenter of the nuclear blast. In 1991 a total of 188 such pieces of granite were sent out to the leaders of 188 countries across the world. On each one of them there is a bas-relief depicting the Japanese goddess of charity – Cannon. The Bulgarian Hiroshima Stone was donated to the Museum of Earth and Man by the President of the Republic in 1997, with the engagement for the special Day of Charity and Empathy to me marked appropriately each year.  Photo: BGNES

The new archeological excavations of this summer, unearthed what is supposed to be a pagan sanctuary in the “Tsurkovishteto” locality, south of the village of Dragoynovo, near Parvomay.  Photo: BTA

A concert of the Representative Brass Band of the Naval Forces in the city of Russe – the place where the foundations of the Bulgarian naval forces were laid with the inauguration of the Danubean Fleet on August 12, 1879, gave the start to the celebrations marking the 140^th anniversary of the Naval Forces.  Photo: BTA