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Varna necropolis, grave offerings on exhibit at the Varna Museum. The site was accidentally discovered in October 1972 by excavator operator Raycho Marinov. The first person to value the significant historical meaning was Dimitar Zlatarski, the creator of the Dalgopol Historical Museum, when he was called by the locals to examine what they had found earlier that day.
The Varna culture was a Chalcolithic culture of northeastern Bulgaria, dated c. 4500 BC, [1] [2] contemporary and closely related with the Gumelnița culture. The oldest golden artifacts in the world (4600 BC - 4200 BC) were found in the Necropolis of Varna. These artefacts are on display in the Varna Archaeological Museum. [3] [4] [5]
In the north, common of Dobrudzha and the Vlachs there is the dzhura gaida. Also in the Strandzha region near the border with Turkey there is the Strandzha gaida. The bag itself is made of a goat skin turned inside out, and most often the rims of the different parts of the instrument - chanter and drone pipe - have a piece of horn on it.
The study of Bulgarian epigraphic monuments has a three-century history. The beginning was made by the decree of Peter I in 1722, after he personally visited the Bulgar settlement. In 1831, the orientalist J. Klaproth first published Bulgarian epitaphs. And in 1863, Kh. Faizkhanov read the inscriptions, relying on data from the Chuvash language.
In Orkney, burials were now being made in small cists well away from the great megalithic sites and a new Beaker culture began to dominate. Bronze and Iron Age metalworking was slowly introduced to Scotland from Europe over a lengthy period. (By contrast, the Neolithic monumental culture spread south from northern Scotland into England.) As the ...
In the winter of 1850, a severe storm hit Scotland, causing widespread damage and over 200 deaths. [7] In the Bay of Skaill , the storm stripped earth from a large irregular knoll . (The name Skara Brae is a corruption of Skerrabra or Styerrabrae, which originally referred to the knoll. [ 3 ] )
The Thracians (Bulgarian: Траки, Ancient Greek: Θρᾷκες, Latin: Thraci) were a group of Indo-European tribes inhabiting a large area in Central and Southeastern Europe, centred in modern Bulgaria. [2] They were bordered by the Scythians to the north, the Celts and the Illyrians to the west, the Greeks to the south, and the Black Sea ...
Elaborate metal weaponry includes bronze leaf swords and ceremonial shields of sheet bronze made in Scotland between 900 and 600 BCE. [14] The Migdale Hoard is an early Bronze Age find at Skibo Castle that includes two bronze axes; several pairs of armlets and anklets, a necklace of forty bronze beads, ear pendants and bosses of bronze and jet ...