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Following a gentleman's expedition: Odobescu and the crypts from northern Buzău

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  • Cezar Buterez

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Subsequent to the period in which he became interested in the Buzău district and a short time after receiving the first answers to his archaeological questionnaire, Romanian writer and archaeologist Alexandru Odobescu made a remarkable discovery. The information he gathered led to the identification of a remote area in northern Buzău, Romania, marked by the existence of a large number of mysterious caves, tombs, and rooms carved in stone. He referred to them as crypts, and carefully planned an expedition in the Alunişu – Nuc area. Although Odobescu, helped by the Swiss painter Henri Trenk, conducted field research in 1871, he never published his findings or drew conclusions regarding the origin of the crypts, thus his manuscripts remained forgotten in the Romanian Academy archives. This paper aims to rediscover a part of Odobescu's unfinished research through the creation of a map which helps us understand the geographical space within which he made his discoveries at the end of the nineteenth century.

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  • Cezar Buterez, 2012. "Following a gentleman's expedition: Odobescu and the crypts from northern Buzău," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(1), pages 125-127.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:8:y:2012:i:1:p:125-127
    DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2012.675762
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