Posted on 08/17/2005 4:37:50 PM PDT by blam
Bulgarian archeologists uncover treasure of thousands of golden ornaments
Canadian Press
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Archeologists working a dig in central Bulgaria have unearthed some 15,000 miniature rings and other gold ornaments that date to the end of the third millennium BC - a find they say matches the famous treasure of Troy, scholars announced Wednesday.
The 4,100- to 4,200-year-old golden ornaments have been gradually unearthed over the past year from an ancient tomb near the central village of Dabene, 120 kilometres east of the capital, Sofia, according to Prof. Vasil Nikolov, the consultant on the excavations.
"This treasure is a bit older than . . . finds in Troy, and contains much more golden ornaments," Nikolov said by telephone.
The treasure consists of 15,000 gold ornaments and miniature golden rings, some of them so finely crafted that the point where the ring is welded is invisible with an ordinary microscope.
"We don't know who these people were, but we call them proto-Thracians," Nikolov said, meaning that they were likely ancestors of the Thracians, who lived in what is now Bulgaria and parts of modern Greece, Romania, Macedonia and Turkey until the 8th century AD, when they were assimilated by the invading Slavs.
"The buried man was cremated, and then an earth mound was piled over his ashes and his riches, suggesting that he was part of these people's social elite," Nikolov said.
Prof. Bozhidar Dimitrov, director of Bulgaria's History Museum, said the site consisted of an ancient settlement and three mounds, and that excavations would continue.
"This is the oldest golden treasure ever found in Bulgaria after the Varna necropolis," Dimitrov said.
The golden artifacts from that vast burial complex discovered in the 1970s near the Black Sea port of Varna date to the end of the fifth millennium BC and are internationally renowned as the world's oldest golden treasure.
They found my stuff!!! They found my stuff!!!!!!!!
really?
[Austin Powers flashback moment]
My thinking, too.
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I heard that too. Somewhere in southern Bulgaria an Egyptian queen has been buried with a big treasure. Who knows? If you like to see some Treasures from Bulgaria check this:
http://www.krasimirdimov.com/starosel
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I’m surprised any gold is left . I read that the noble Roman Biggus Dickus raped Thrace Thrice.
Maybe the Bulgarian Archaeologists can dig up the dead link.
Try this:
Bulgaria Unearths Huge Hoard Of Gold
I think this probably the best you're going to get on an article that is 18 years old.
Ooops! Didn’t notice the date. LOL!
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