She directed and participated in numerous field archaeological investigations. From 1964 until now, she has been a member of the team and head of field research at the Palace Center in Veliki Preslav and coordinator of research in the Second Bulgarian capital.
On April 5, 2023, Bulgarian science lost an outstanding archaeologist, scientist and friend - Prof. Margarita Vaklinova
Margarita Vaklinova graduated from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". He defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Decorative stone sculpture from the Early Byzantine era in Bulgaria - V-VI centuries." He specialized in Italy, France and Great Britain. In 1968 he completed a course at the Institute of Ravenna and Byzantine Art at the University of Bologna - Ravenna, Italy. In the period 1971-1972, he specialized in the College de France and the University of Paris - Sorbonne. In 1986 he specialized in London on a joint research program with the British Academy of Sciences.
She directed and participated in numerous field archaeological investigations. From 1964 until now, she has been a member of the team and head of field research at the Palace Center in Veliki Preslav and coordinator of research in the Second Bulgarian capital. Until 1978, Margarita Vaklinova was the head of the archaeological excavations of the Palace Center and the Krum Palace in Pliska. In the period 1980-1988, he was the head of the research of the ancient and medieval city of Nicopolis ad Nestum, as well as the archaeological excavations of the Red Church in Peruštitsa. To this day, he actively participates in the field work. She worked on sites from different eras: prehistory, antiquity, the Middle Ages.
In the period 1988-1989, Margarita Vaklinova was a guest lecturer at the University of Paris, where she gave a course of lectures on early Christian art and the early medieval culture of Bulgaria. He teaches at the New Bulgarian University, Department of Archaeology, as well as at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of St. Kliment Ohridski".
From 1993 to 2008, Margarita Vaklinova was the deputy director of NAIM-BAN, and from 2008 she became acting director of NAIM.
Margarita Vaklinova is the author of more than a hundred scientific publications in the field of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. She left her original contribution to Bulgarian science.
Margarita Vaklinova is the recipient of a number of state awards, one of the most prestigious being the Order of "St. Cyril and Methodius" with a necklace for her particularly significant merits for the development of culture, the "Pythagoras" award for contribution to science, the "Golden Griffin" award for contribution to the development of Bulgarian archaeological science.
He is a holder of honorary citizenship of Sofia, Veliki Preslav and Smolyan.
The National History Museum expresses its condolences to the family, relatives, colleagues and everyone who loves and respects Prof. Vaklinova. We mourn the great loss! A tribute to her work!
THEIR DIRECTOR: ASSOCIATE. Dr. BONNIE PETRUNOVA