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#Repost///@historyfeels: ‘Varna Man’ and the richest grave of the 5th millennium BCE._The world of archaeology stumbled upon a massive find in 1972 when - some routine work to lay cable and drainage in a Bulgarian field revealed a vast necropolis near the city of Varna, with it came a precious hoard of ancient jewels and gold.Archeologists dated the find to the 5th millennium BCE. That is around 6500 years ago, pre-dating Stonehenge. A mysterious culture on the Black Sea coast made some of the earliest gold artifacts ever found.The culture was a cradle of civilization in Europe and got rich from trade and its ability to produce these high-quality gold ornaments and jewelry.As the discovery team kept exploring this ancient city of the dead - they reached a tomb called Grave 43, which is what you see in this picture.The archaeologists named him Varna Man, and the contents of his final resting place made him look like a Bulgarian King Tut.There were almost 1,000 gold objects and other grave goods like copper axes, cooper tools, carnelian, and marble. All of it was (most likely) there to allow Varna Man to live the high life in the afterworld.The treasure included a gold-hammer scepter, a breastplate, tiara, and, rather interesting, a gold sheath that covered Varna Man’s family jewels (we can let the comments speculate why that was there). More than 1.5 kilograms of golden artifacts were discovered lying around Vana Man’s remains. He may have been a king or a high priest, but no matter who he was, his grave was intact and looked like it had somehow avoided ancient grave robbers as well.