Wednesday, 29th August 2007 (2654 views)

A 20-carat gold dagger and 5,000 year-old gold rings are among the many treasures that have been found in Bulgarian ground recently.

According to a report in the Telegraph, Bulgaria is behind just Italy and Greece in Europe in terms of the number of antiquities that can be found in the country's soil, with numerous artefacts discovered on a regular basis.

Svetla Tsaneva-Dimitrova, head of the Bulgaria National Museum's restoration team, said that a number of gold rings were found in a box in a shop drawer.

"We found 25,000 of them when we went into a grocery shop a couple of months ago," she said, according to the Telegraph.

"A farmer's wife was wearing them as a necklace. Her husband had just dug them up in a field nearby. As you can imagine, we were stunned."

Ms Tsanev-Dimitrova added that items similar to the tiny rings found were found at Troy.

Bulgaria is home to a number of Unesco sites, including the Kazanluk Tomb, which dates back to the fourth century BC, and Sveshtari Tomb, a Thracian site dating back to a similar period, according to Bulgaria Travel.

 

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