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  • Bulgaria: Archaeologists Finally Put Date on Ancient Starosel Tomb

    03/18/2010 6:11:11 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 16 replies · 389+ views
    BalkanTravellers.com ^ | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | unattributed (novinite.com)
    A team of archaeologists from the Bulgarian National History Museum, with the help of a German lab, has finally managed to estimate the time of the construction of the largest underground temple on the Balkan Peninsula, the Thracian Starosel tomb to the fourth century BC. In the summer of 2009, the archaeological team, led by Dr. Ivan Hristov, took samples from a stake in the middle of the tomb where gifts to the Greek goddess of the hearth Hestia were laid... The sample underwent radio carbon dating analysis in Dr. Bernd Krommer's laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, which showed that the...