...The investigation resulted in two immediate arrests at gun point and the recovery of 300 other precious items. Since the department was created last October, it has seized 16,000 artefacts
Posted on 09/02/2007 7:02:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Among the paperclips in the bottom drawer of a desk in Bulgaria's National History Museum is a small cardboard box packed with 5,000-year-old gold rings. "We found 25,000 of them when we went into a grocery shop a couple of months ago," said Svetla Tsaneva-Dimitrova, the head of the museum's restoration team. "A farmer's wife was wearing them as a necklace. Her husband had just dug them up in a field nearby. As you can imagine, we were stunned." Each tiny gold ring is 23-carat gold, but nobody knows how they were crafted. "Modern jewellers cannot make these things without a magnifying glass," said Miss Tsaneva-Dimitrova, adding that similar rings were discovered at Troy. Found at the same time was a small 20-carat gold dagger from 3,000BC that is "still so sharp you can shave with it." ...Nikolai Ovcharov... "The government cannot afford to excavate all the sites itself," he said. "So they should give out concessions and carry out rigorous checks on what is found. The longer it takes to pass a new law, the more treasure we will lose."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
...The investigation resulted in two immediate arrests at gun point and the recovery of 300 other precious items. Since the department was created last October, it has seized 16,000 artefacts
While working on this an hour or so ago, FR stopped responding, so I was able to retrieve just the topic name and link for some of these, and didn’t go back to get ‘em when FR came back up:
Ancient Bulgarian Sanctuaries “Older” Than Egyptian Pyramids
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834682/posts
Archeologists find unique Thracian gold near seaside
Bulgarian News Network | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 | unattributed
Posted on 08/29/2006 1:42:02 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1691733/posts
Archaeologists Seek Hints On 4,000-Year-Old (Thracian) Civilization In Tekirda
Turkish Daily News | 7-19-2006
Posted on 07/19/2006 1:39:15 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668589/posts
Bulgaria-Unearthed Temples A Millenium Older than Egypt Pyramids
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787065/posts
Bulgarian Archaeologists Discover 2400-Year-Old Golden Mask
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866961/posts
Image of Mythological Minotaur Labyrinth Unearthed in Bulgaria
Novanite | June 14, 2007 | unattributed
Posted on 06/17/2007 12:18:24 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1851538/posts
Key Archaeological Find At Bulgaria’s Veliko Turnovo (Thracians)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1656152/posts
Orpheus Tomb Discovered
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858482/posts
Specialists Identify Bulgaria-Found Thracian King’s Body
Sofia News Agency | 3 August 2005 | Lifestyle editor
Posted on 11/27/2005 11:04:54 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1529292/posts
Treasures Fit For A King (Thracians)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412784/posts
Unique Ancient Thracian Chariot Unearthed in Bulgaria
Novinite | Saturday, April 21, 2007 | unattributed
Posted on 04/21/2007 3:34:42 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1821323/posts
Unique Thracian Symbol Of Royalty Discovered In Bulgaria
Novinite | 6-11-2007
Posted on 06/12/2007 9:22:35 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849242/posts
Who were the Macedonians ? (Background to todays conflict)
Source: Macedonian Echo
Published: February, 1993 Author: Dennis Grammenos
Posted on 06/18/2001 00:32:34 PDT by Pericles
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b2dae927e99.htm
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Bulgarian government thugs abuse landowners at gunpoint.
Is there anything that doesn’t belong to the government?
Museum Watchdog
Archaeology | August 14, 2007 | interview of David Gill
Posted on 09/02/2007 4:37:56 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1890119/posts
Very interesting thread.
Why is he going to shoot his magazine?
I read a great piece about this in National Geographic. Bulgaria was virtually a Greek colony, and there are thousands of Greek/Thracian/Roman artifacts that are in danger.
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