Vanya Borislavova Lozanova – Stancheva graduated from Sofia University ‘St Kliment Ohridski’ with a degree in Ancient and Medieval History. She did a second degree in Bulgarian Philology and a postgraduate specialization course in History and Theory of Culture at the Sofia University Department of Classical Philology. For many years she has taught Ancient History and Thracian Studies, Ancient Cultural Heritage and Cultural Tourism, History of Theatre, Ancient Mystery Religions at Sofia University ‘St Kliment Ohridski’, the South-West Uinversity ‘Neofit Rilski’, Varna Free University ‘Chernorizets Hrabar’, and Plovdiv University ‘Paisii Hilendarski’. Vanya Borislavova Lozanova – Stancheva has specialized at many famous foreign universities and research centres: the Classical Philology Seminar at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Department of Philosophy and History (Greece) and The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), the Classical Philology Seminar at Saarland University in Saarbrücken (Germany), the Institute for Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki (Greece), the Classical Philology Seminar at Heidelberg University (Germany), The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at Ohio State University (the USA). Vanya Lozanova – Stancheva is a professor of Ancient History and Thracian Studies at the BAS Balkan Studies Institute with Thracian Studies Centre ‘Prof. Alexander Fol’, Sofia. She is the author of six monographs and a large number of scientific and popular science articles in prestigious Bulgarian and international publications.