Varna Necropolis, a 3200-3000 BC burial site, contains what are believed to be the oldest examples of worked gold in the world.

A happy coincidence in 1972 provided science with invaluable data. Digging a trench for an electric cable in the western industrial part of the city of Varna the man working with the excavator discovered in the soil discarded by the machine several gold objects, pieces of ceramics and other items.

Hearing about this, archeologists from the Varna Archeological Museum started excavations on the spot.

They discovered a graveyard (in scientific terminology - necropolis 'city of the dead'), belonging to some unknown prehistoric settlement.

The results surpassed the boldest expectations of archeologists.

Obviously there were three different ways of burying the dead — lying on their back with the body stretched and with a huddled body, with arms and legs curved.

The third type was the so-called "Symbolic burial" where no skeletons were found in the graves