Monthly Archives: November 2012

The oldest gold hoard ever found. In 1972, during excavations at the Chalcolithic necropolis of a settlement dating to the end of the fifth millennium BC near the present-day city of Varna on the Black Sea coast, archaeologists revealed traces of a civilization equal to that of Egypt and Mesopotamia http://www.omda.bg/public/engl/history/varna_necropolis_treasure.htm