Posted on 11/08/2012 5:26:22 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
Bulgarian archaeologists have found a unique gold Thracian treasure in the famous Sveshtari tomb.
The team, led by one of the most prominent Bulgarian experts on Thracian archaeology, Prof. Diana Gergova, from the National Archaeology Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BAS, made the discovery during excavations at the so-called Omurtag mount.
The researchers found fragments of a wooden box, containing charred bones and ashes, along with a number of extremely well-preserved golden objects, dated from the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd century B. C.. They include four spiral gold bracelets, and a number of intricate applications like one which shows the head of a female goddess adorned with beads, applications on horse riding gear and a forehead covering in the shape of a horse head with a base shaped like a lion head. The objects weigh 1.5 kg, but the excavations continue.
(Excerpt) Read more at novinite.com ...
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/11/08/bulgarian-archaeologists-discover-2400-year-old-golden-treasure/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/08/bulgarian-archaeologists-golden-treasures-thracian
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interesting...thanks
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the word “Thracian” just sounds cool
(It's only a movie...no Thracians were actually harmed.)
Miltiades, the Athenian hero of the battle of Marathon, married Hegesipyle, the daughter of a Thracian king named Olorus--she became the mother of Cimon, one of the most important Athenian generals of the period from 480 to 450 B.C.
The Athenian historian Thucydides was the son of a man named Olorus, but it is not known how or if his father was related to the other Olorus.
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I wondered where I left those things....I’m claiming them right now. LOL.
goes back so far that myth and history intertwine
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