The Varna civilization

In Complex “Damascena” we have chosen to recreate and make available to each of our visitors one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in world history – The Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis.

Through 1972 year, near Varna, while excavating a trench for a cable, the excavator Raicho Marinov digs up yellow metal tiles. Keep them in the excavator for a few days, in a shoe box, without suspecting, that its discovery will change the ideas about the history of the world. Like that, after approx 7 000 years of rest, the buried golden treasure comes to light. They are found 3 000 gold objects – more than all the prehistoric gold of that era, open to the world.

The news shook the international scientific community and became the archaeological sensation of 20 century – in Bulgaria, in the Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis, the world's oldest processed gold from the Chalcolithic era was discovered.

Through 1980 Mr. Sir Colin Renfrew, world famous British archaeologist, writes in National Geographic: "The world's oldest gold treasure, discovered in 1972 Mr., it was not found in Sumer or Egypt, nor in pre-Columbian America. To everyone's surprise, it came from northeastern Bulgaria, from the attractive and modern city of Varna and is more than 6 500 years!“

The richest grave is no 43, with a skeleton probably of a ruler – chief, king or priest. Man about 45 years, with a high for the era growth of 170 cm. and athletic build. The mysterious civilization is called "Culture Varna" – the first civilization on the European continent, a millennium and a half older than the Greek. According to Dr. John Chapman, a member of an international team, exploring the treasure, it is older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.

Apart from its ancient origins, the hoard is an amazing testimony to ancient engineering thought and scientific knowledge. Civilization, inhabited the lands of Lake Varna, was familiar with the golden ratio (Fi) and the number Pi (3,14), reflecting the ratio between the length of a given circle and its diameter.

In one of the graves, archaeologists found two golden bulls of different sizes. The smaller one is with 45 points, and the older one has 56. These two numbers, multiplied by the height of the larger bull (58,17 mm), give exactly the value of the height of the Great Pyramid of Cheops - 146,58 m., and the pyramids of Giza were built almost 20 century, after the world's oldest gold treasure is buried in the necropolis off the coast of our Black Sea capital.

Friend fact, generating extreme interest, is, that the king's cubit, which was used as a unit of measurement by the builders of the Egyptian pyramids, is set as a benchmark in the artifacts from the Varna treasure. A ceramic bowl with gold inlays and diameter was discovered, exactly equal to one imperial cubit, or 52,36 cm.

These similarities in their proportions speak of spiritual kinship and secret knowledge, overcame the obstacles of thousands of kilometers and thousands of years.

The Varna civilization inhabited today's Bulgarian lands. There is a high probability that its inhabitants are antediluvian, biblical people. Who are they?? And like all civilizations, probably they too were destroyed by calamities and cataclysms. In the fourth millennium BC, this world disappears.

After extensive analysis and years of research, Bulgarian and world scientists are unanimous, that the Varna civilization was the first in Europe, probably also in the world with such advanced technology and a society with a complex social structure.