A woman's skeleton with a shiny set of teeth that survived after 9,000 years has been nicknamed Julia Roberts by Bulgarian archaeologists because of her perfect teeth.

Bulgarian archaeologists have unearthed the perfectly preserved skeleton, believed to be the oldest ever found in Europe. The skeleton, unearthed near the village of Ohoden, Vratsa district, northwest Bulgaria, is 9,000-year-old, according to examination results, and is believed to be of a young woman from one of earliest agriculture civilisations on the Balkans.

The woman was of rare beauty, according to anthropologists, who examined the finding. She had a Mediterranean-type European features and can compete a modern Hollywood star with her teeth perfectly well arranged, the team said.

She was a rare beauty and could have competed with today's Hollywood stars with her perfect set of teeth. She is a stone age Julia Roberts. She would have had a perfect smile - it really is a puzzle, Georgi Ganetsovski, the expedition leader was quoted as saying.

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