Ancient dagger found in Bulgaria

BBC ^ | August 6, 2006 | Nick Thorpe

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

So was this a high enough culture to rival Sumer, Egypt, and the Indus River Civilization? Also, four thousand years for a culture of whom little is known? Small but intelligent?

[dr_who_2]

You can find all sorts of things in Bulgaria!

[muawiyah]

3000 BC is a very long time ago. That's right when Egyptian civilization arrived at the Pharonic period of development. Sumer (where writing started) would have been only 500 to 1,000 years ahead of the Bulgarians.

[Cacique]

btt for later read

[BunnySlippers]

Yogurt?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Yes. The ancient civilizations are estimated of coming about around then (soon after the Flood, incidently). That was why China and Greece weren't posted, as they came about later. A civilization so old and that went to 1000AD is odd.

[Zeroisanumber]

Amazing that such an advanced civilization should have existed in Bulgaria 5000 years ago. There's so much that we don't know about ancient peoples who lived outside of Egypt or the Middle East.

[fuzzthatwuz]

Thanks for a most interesting post and link!

[muawiyah]

I think the error arrises out of "Greek price" ~ it's pretty obvious that Bulgaria was civilized and the Greeks were still picking lice and living in caves.

Or, that in all reality the Greeks, just like all the other Indo-European speaking peoples of their day, lived mostly in what is now Bulgaria!

That is to say, the Greeks and Bulgarians at that time were probably indistinguishible.

[dr_who_2]

...ancient stone tablets, new sites for army bases, missing socks...

[Chode]

hey that's mine... i been lookin for that!!!

[RFC_Gal]

Which flood are you talking about?

[MilesMonroe]

The authenticity of the artifacts is currently in great doubt, particularly since the word 'Oldsmobile' appears several times in the text.

[Popocatapetl]

Alloys are one of the best indicators of the development of a civilization. They are a natural discovery, because of mixes in ores, and the fact that generally alloys melt at lower temperatures than single metals.

But the most important indicator is how much mining a people engage in. There is almost a perfect correlation between the amount of mining and economic success in history. And if you have to get your alloy ore from another nation, through trade, that opens up a whole new facet to development.

[GeronL]

hhhmmmm

[Texas Songwriter]

Beaugenhaus....for Damien.

[TexasPatriot8]

Fascinating article. Thanks for posting that! :)

[kitchen]

In before the GGG ping.

[muawiyah]

There was a major flood about 5600 years ago (3600 BC) in what is now the Black Sea basin. It raised 400 feet when the Mediterranean breeched the glacial dam that'd held it back.

There are, of course, earlier floods which involved a large meltdown of Antarctica to it's present size and a larger meltdown of the North American ice cap.

It's entirely possible many of our most ancient "flood stories" were inspired by the observations of survivors of the earlier floods.