Archeologists find royal jewellery

BULGARIAN archaeologists have unearthed more than 15,000 golden pieces of Thracian royal jewellery dating back to the third millennium BC, the director of the National Historical Museum, Bozhidar Dimitrov, said today."The golden objects unearthed near the village of Dabene in central Bulgaria are not just pieces of Thracian jewellery. They are objects of exquisite regal ornamentation," he said.

"In the whole of Europe and the Near East there is only one find that rivals these extremely well-crafted pieces - the golden treasures found in ancient Troy," Mr Dimitrov said.
"The large number of golden objects and the expert craftsmanship in their making lead us to question Troy's supremacy as the biggest ancient centre for goldsmiths," he said.

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