Archaeologists say they
have unearthed an almost 2,400-year-old golden hoard in an ancient Thracian
tomb in northern Bulgaria.
The treasure was found on Thursday near the
village of Sveshtari, 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 B.C., 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 A.D., when they were assimilated by the invading Slavs.
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