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Unearthed!
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PERFECTLY PRESERVED: Believed to be 5000 years old.
A six-inch-long gold and platinum dagger believed to be 5,000 years old has been unearthed in central Bulgaria. Archaeologist Martin Hristov said his team also discovered more than 500 tiny golden rings that appeared to be pieces of ancient jewellery. Bozhidar Dimitrov, the head of the National Museum of History, said the finds were perfectly preserved and would soon go on display in the museum. Other finds include a small golden plaque, silver vessels, bronze and silver ritual knives, and ancient pottery. Over the past two years Hristov's team has found more than 15,000 miniature ancient golden rings and beads, all dating back about 5,000 to 5,200 years. They form exquisite golden jewels said to resemble the adornment found by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann when he discovered the site of ancient Troy. Historians suggest that the people who crafted the dagger and the golden jewels were ancestors of the Thracians, who inhabited the lands of present day Bulgaria and parts of modern Greece, Turkey, Macedonia and Romania between 4,000 B.C. and the 8th Century A.D. when they were assimilated by the invading Slavs.
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