Posted on 05/22/2006 12:22:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Bulgaria's most famous archaeological finds -- including a collection thought to be the world's oldest golden treasure -- were shown together for the first time in an exhibition that opened Saturday in the Black Sea city of Varna... The centerpiece of the exhibition -- the Varna necropolis finds -- includes 6,400-year-old golden jewelry found in the grave of an ancient king or priest. The artifacts -- discovered in the 1970s in a vast ancient burial complex near Varna -- are internationally renowned as the world's oldest golden treasures -- so old that scientists know nothing about the origins of the civilization that crafted them. "We believe that this civilization disappeared in some kind of a natural cataclysm," said Gavrail Lazov, a historian with the National Museum of History.
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Young guy - Whoa, that was some good stuff. Am I floating too?
Old guy - Whoa, is this a flashback to '67?
Giddy lady - Ooooh, if I could get those fitted as earrings, wouldn't the other girls be jealous.
Ditto.
Looking at those closeups LEL posted the link for, I'm reallllly impressed. The main reason Trajan conquered Dacia (which isn't far from Bulgaria, although I'm a little hazy regarding the modern border) was to grab their gold mines, and it marked the economic peak of the empire.
You can tell that nice lady finds the accouterments acceptable! :)
Nice pics.
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