Ancient site · Bulgaria · Partial ruin
Varna Necropolis
The Varna Necropolis is a Chalcolithic burial site on the outskirts of Varna, Bulgaria, dated to the mid-5th millennium BC. Excavations revealed nearly 300 graves with extensive gold, copper and bead grave goods — including the largest and oldest concentration of prehistoric gold known to archaeology.
Its prime
4500 BC
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 4500 BC
What Varna Necropolis looked like in its prime.
A low, open burial field cut into pale compacted clay and ochre-stained earth, filled with shallow rectangular pits and small earthen mounds. In the excavated graves skeletons lie supine or crouched on clay floors surrounded by dense arrays of tiny gold beads, gold discs, copper tools, stone axeheads and pottery. Colours are muted earth tones — buff clay, red ochre stains, greenish copper corrosion and bright yellow gold glinting against the soil.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 4500 BC.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Varna Necropolis — including 6 interiors: grave 43 — overview, grave 43 — skull and pectoral, symbolic (cenotaph) grave and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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