locations in Eurasia, from the Mediterranean region through Anatolia to the Caucasus mountains, and even in the Altai mountains (at the valley of the Khovd river). The rocks that are most similar to the rocks with niches in Hungary can be found on the Balkan peninsula: on the Royak-Provadia plateau (near the villages of Madara and Royak) in Bulgaria and in the Rhodope mountains. So we have another thread to start to follow in search for the origin of beehive rocks, diverging from the early medieval period; investigating the story of the Agrian people. Historical studies do not consider the information from Bonfini about the city of Eger to a sufficient degree, however his statements are supported by a series of facts. Accordingly, to Antonio Bonfini, Eger belonged to the domain of Metanastae or Jász or Iazyg people [the Hungarian word “íjász” means archer]. He specifies Agrians as the founders and denominators of the city. They were a group of Thracian-Illyrian refugees from the vicinity of the Rhodope mountains (accordingly to Antonio Bonfini in 1581). [Sámuel Timon suggested that Candanum (the city of the Iazyges) was Eger, and that Metanastae was the same group as the Iazyges. He suggested (on pages 97–98 of his work in 1733–1734) that their name is related to the border of the Roman Empire. The Latin word meta may stand for goal, end or limit indeed, but it may stand for a conical or pyramidal post or a peak (of hill or land) as well. So, Metanastae may stand for a group of people living at/over the border of the empire, but it may stand for peoples raising hillforts or rampant systems as well; think about the defense structures associated with Sarmatian Iazyges – Csörsz dykes (also called Devil dykes); or it may stand for peoples carving stone idols or rock cones.] Strabo, in his work titled Geographica, had already reported on the Illyrian peoples called Agrians living on the Balkan peninsula. This raises a new question: who were the Agrians, and when could they arrive to this region? They must have been an earlier group of people than the Sarmatian Iazyges who settled on the Great Hungarian Plain around the end of the 1st century BC – accordingly to Bonfini (who was familiar with Byzantine sources); he reported that the Thracian-Illyrian peasants had been expelled from the vicinity of Eger by the Iazyges. The