There is no doubt we are not dealing with a treasure of a
trivial kind. Its nature is outstanding. 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.
This gave world culture a unique monument of the culture of the
oldest inhabitants of Europe. They discovered a graveyard (in
scientific terminology - necropolis 'city of the dead'),
belonging to some unknown prehistoric settlement. Since it was
situated very close to the Varna Lake (500 m) it must have been
connected to some of the lake settlements, built in the water on
stakes stuck in the bottom. This presupposition was supported by
various finds in the mud of the lake - ceramics, instruments of
stone and flint, et