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Ancient Ritual 'Cauldron' Unearthed in Bulgaria Bulgaria

Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 22 October 2005  Page Views: 8376

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Country: Bulgaria Bulgarian treasure-hunters discovered an ancient bronze cauldron, used for ritual funerals more than thirty centuries ago, on Saturday. The cauldron was found near the Utroba cave, close to Kurdzhali, Southern Bulgaria. It contained burned human bones and was placed in a stone shaft, covered with a slab.



Archeologists suppose that the treasure-hunters were digging for gold and found the relic by mistake. Upon seeing that it did not contain anything of value, they abandoned it, and it was found by some Kurdzhali citizens. German Angelov, an archeologis from the Perperikon expedition saw it and bought it from the finders.

Specialists date the cauldron between 11th and 8th century B.C. and think that it had been used as a funeral urn. An ancient village is believed to have been situated near the Utroba cave where this relic was found.

Last year ancient coins, bronze statuettes and ceramics with early scriptures were discovered in the same area.

Kurdzhali's Historical Museum received the cauldron on Saturday.

Source: Sofia News Agency
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Experts excavate oldest worked metal in Europe by Anonymous on Monday, 24 October 2005
SOFIA (bnn)- Archaeologists found the oldest worked metal in Europe while excavating an early Neolithic village near the village of Dzhulyunitza in central Bulgaria, state TV reported Sunday.

The 3 metal finds are 8,000 years old. The experts found signs of cold treatment during which the metal pieces were transformed into beads. The extraordinary find gives a new direction in the research of the prehistoric people who lived on Bulgarian territory. Only the worked metal pieces found in Anatolia, which is the Asian part of Turkey, is older (11,000 years) than the find in Dzhulyunitza. According to the chief archaeologist Nedko Eleneski the discovered worked copper beads prove the presence of intensive contacts with Asia even in that early age.
“It should be known that the treatment of copper was familiar back in the earliest ages known as the Preceramic Neolith. In our case we can say that this is the most ancient metal find for the Balkan Peninsula and for Europe as a whole,” Elenski said.
The archeological research near Dzhulyunitza is financed by a project of the Archaeological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). Last year experts discovered in the same village relics from the earliest Neolithic funeral, which is 8, 300 years old.
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