Varna Gold: Ancient Jewelry & Cemetery Discovery

In the fall of 1972, workers⁤ in the coastal Bulgarian‌ city‍ of Varna accidentally stumbled upon⁤ an ancient cemetery filled with treasure. The ‍burial ground contained more than 3,000 gold artifacts that date to between 4600 and 4300 B.C.,making them⁣ the ⁢oldest gold artifacts in the world.

Over a 20-year period of excavations, archaeologists recovered gold objects from 62 of the around 300 graves in the Varna cemetery. But one-third of all the gold finds came from one burial, Grave 43, which also​ contained the skeleton of a man who was over 60 years old when he died ⁢nearly six millennia ago.