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MuseumsSite Name: Varna Museum of Archaeology Alternative Name: Varna Regional Museum, Varna Archaeological Museum
Country: Bulgaria
NOTE: This site is 10.2 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Varna
Latitude: 43.207592N  Longitude: 27.914994E
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
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Museum in Bulgaria. Throughout its existence of over 120 years, archaeologists, members of the Varna Archaeological Museum or employed at the Archaeological Museum have constantly carried out archaeological investigations and excavations on various sites all over Northeast Bulgaria.

The Varna Archaeological Museum now holds over 100,000 various objects of the region's past epochs.

Official web site at http://www.amvarna.com

Note: Major exhibition on ancient Danube/Balkan civilization in New York, see comment
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Europe’s ‘oldest town’ found near Bulgaria’s Varna, professor says by neolithique02 on Wednesday, 10 October 2012
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Europe’s oldest urban settlement is near Provadia, a town of about 13 000 people about 40km inland from Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Varna, according to archaeology Professor Vassil Nikolov, citing evidence from work done at the Provadia – Solnitsata archaeological site in summer 2012.

The team of archaeologists headed by Nikolov excavated stone walls estimated to date from 4700 to 4200 BCE. The walls are two metres thick and three metres high, and according to Nikolov are the earliest and most massive fortifications from Europe’s pre-history.
There were about 300 to 350 people living at the site in those times, living in two-storey houses and earning their living by salt mining.
To this day, Provadia is an important salt centre, with a large-scale foreign investor represented in the area. Estimates are that salt has been extracted in the area for about 7500.

Nikolov said that salt was the currency of ancient times, both in terms of value and prestige.

As the only place in the Balkans used to produce salt at the time, Provadia –Solnitsatsa of the fifth century BCE was the “mint” of the region, Nikolov said.

He said that finds of gravesites at a necropolis showed that people in the town were wealthy.

Ritual burial practices also were strange and complex, he said. Copper needles and pottery found in graves at the site showed that people had been wealthy, but in some cases the corpses had been cut in half and buried from the pelvis up.

The study in summer 2012, lasting two months, focused mainly on the necropolis and the village

http://sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/08/archaeology-europes-oldest-town-found-near-bulgarias-varna-professor-says/
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German Experts Examine 7,500-year-old Skeleton Found in Bulgaria by Andy B on Monday, 19 December 2011
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The experts of the Tubingen University, Germany, will examine a 7,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Bulgaria. The archaeologists came across the find this summer in the Koriata locality near Varna. It is expected that the German anthropologists will soon decide whether this is a skeleton of a man or a woman, said curator of the local museum Rosen Petrov yesterday. He reminded that the skeleton was sent to Germany this summer after it was unearthed in a settlement dating back to the Stone-Copper Age.

This is also the dating of the famous Varna necropolis where archaeologists discovered the world’s oldest gold treasure. The ancient Suvorovo settlement near Varna is being researched now after a 2-year break and the local municipality sponsors the excavations. After the find returns from Germany it will be exhibited in a special glass showcase in the renovated Suvorovo historical museum. The museum will be overhauled with the funds provided under the rural areas development program.

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2011-12-01&article=37830
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Bulgarian Archeaologists Investigate Mysterious Death by coldrum on Sunday, 23 October 2011
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Bulgarian Archeaologists Investigate Mysterious Death

Bulgarian archaeologists uncovered a human skeleton dating some 6,500 years back believed to belong to a person who died a violent death.

Researchers came to the finding in the area of the town of Suvorovo near Varna, in an ancient dwelling from the 5th millenium BC.

There are clear signs that house had been burned to the ground, which gives archaeologists ground to believe that the person whose remains were found did not die a natural death.

Further studies are underway to determined what exactly happened to the dwelling.

The skeleton itself will be transported for additional investigations and measurements in Sofia.

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=129751
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Most Ancient Civilization Was in Bulgaria by Andy B on Tuesday, 08 December 2009
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An ancient civilization, older than the Egyptian, existed in the lands of the coastal city of Varna, reveals the most recent scientific research of a team of archaeologists in Germany. Vladimir Slavchev from Varna Archaeological museum is part of that team.

According to this large-scale study, the most ancient civilization in the world lived in the lands between Mangalia to the north and the Kamchiya River valley to the south. All the following societies imitated the local way of life. The old society from the region near Varna set the beginning to all kingdoms, scientists maintain. The burials of noble men and luxury objects unearthed in the famous Necropolis support that opinion.
Over 200 valuable objects, among which are 2,000 golden beads, part of Varna's oldest treasure will be displayed in an exhibition in New York.

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2009-11-03&article=29966
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A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity by Andy B on Monday, 07 December 2009
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Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade.

For 1,500 years, starting earlier than 5000 B.C., they farmed and built sizable towns, a few with as many as 2,000 dwellings. They mastered large-scale copper smelting, the new technology of the age. Their graves held an impressive array of exquisite headdresses and necklaces and, in one cemetery, the earliest major assemblage of gold artifacts to be found anywhere in the world.

The striking designs of their pottery speak of the refinement of the culture’s visual language. Until recent discoveries, the most intriguing artifacts were the ubiquitous terracotta “goddess” figurines, originally interpreted as evidence of the spiritual and political power of women in society.

New research, archaeologists and historians say, has broadened understanding of this long overlooked culture, which seemed to have approached the threshold of “civilization” status. Writing had yet to be invented, and so no one knows what the people called themselves. To some scholars, the people and the region are simply Old Europe.

The little-known culture is being rescued from obscurity in an exhibition, “The Lost World of Old Europe: the Danube Valley, 5000-3500 B.C.,” which opened last month at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. More than 250 artifacts from museums in Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania are on display for the first time in the United States. The show will run through April 25.
http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/exhibitions/oldeurope/

Over a wide area of what is now Bulgaria and Romania, the people settled into villages of single- and multiroom houses crowded inside palisades. The houses, some with two stories, were framed in wood with clay-plaster walls and beaten-earth floors. For some reason, the people liked making fired clay models of multilevel dwellings, examples of which are exhibited.

A few towns of the Cucuteni people, a later and apparently robust culture in the north of Old Europe, grew to more than 800 acres, which archaeologists consider larger than any other known human settlements at the time. But excavations have yet to turn up definitive evidence of palaces, temples or large civic buildings. Archaeologists concluded that rituals of belief seemed to be practiced in the homes, where cultic artifacts have been found.

Read more in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01arch.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
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    Re: A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity by davidmorgan on Monday, 07 December 2009
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    Interesting stuff. But a little more contextualisation needed - e.g. no reference to Can Hasan, where the oldest copper artefact was found, nor Çatalhöyük. Both of which are only 600 miles away.
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