They compare in beauty and workmanship to anything available now. Artists were as proud of their work in the Ancient World as they are today. It's just as golden and just as gorgeous but something about their age to me makes them so much more exciting. What did the eyes they framed see in the world? I wish sometimes by a touch, we could glimpse the world an ancient object "saw", what the air free of industrial pollution smelled like, what the night skies looked like.. it's fun to imagine.
It's the sort of classic jewellery favoured by modern women except these earrings were worn 2,500 years ago.
An archeologist discovered gold earrings, a ring and other funeral gifts dating back to the 5th century B.C. while excavating a Thracian tomb near the village of Kushare, about 280km from Sofia, Bulgaria.
Some of the oldest examples of gold jewellery and artifacts have been discovered in Bulgaria and it's Black Sea coast is considered the birthplace of the world's metal production.
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