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48 places in the atlas, 1 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Necropolis
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Varna Lake — North Necropolis West Bank Sector in Varna Province, Varna Lake, Bulgaria is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (4500–2000 BCE) necropolis attribu…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Buried city
Late Chalcolithic / Copper Age · Varna culture (Karanovo VI/Gumelnița)
Chalcolithic cemetery (4600–4200 BCE) with world's oldest worked gold hoard — 3,000 gold objects, 6.5 kg, in Grave 43 (status male with gold penis sheath) and 294 other graves, demonstrating earliest…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Necropolis
Late Chalcolithic (Varna Culture) · Varna Culture (Gumelnița-Karanovo)
Chalcolithic cemetery in western Varna industrial zone (c. 4560–4450 BCE) with 294 graves, yielding world's oldest gold treasure (3,000+ gold artifacts, 6 kg).
