Gold treasure more than 2,000 years old found in Bulgaria

Source: AP

The unique treasure was found on Thursday near the village of Sveshtari, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of Sofia, team leader Diana Gergova said.

She said that among the artifacts, dating back to the end of the fourth or the beginning of the third century BC, were gold jewelry and applications for horse trappings, a tiara with reliefs of lions and fantasy animals, as well as four bracelets and a ring.

The Thracians lived in what is now Bulgaria, and parts of modern Greece, Romania, Macedonia, and Turkey between 4,000 B.C. and the 7th century AD, when they were assimilated by the invading Slavs. Continue...