3,000-year-old Embryo-Like Skeletons Found in Bulgaria

Society | November 16, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00
3,000-year-old Embryo-Like Skeletons Found in Bulgaria 3,000-year-old human skeletons were unearthed in the village of Moguila, the district of Yambol. Photo by bTV

Bulgarian archeologists have discovered 3,000-year-old human skeletons, just weeks after Europe's oldest skeleton was unearthed in the country.

The skeletons, discovered near the village of Moguila in the district of Yambol, are about two meters tall, which is unusual for the people who inhabited the region in the Early Bronze era.

The skeletons are balled up in an embryo position, which, ancient peoples believed, immortalized the soul, archeologists explained.

The people came to the region from the Black Sea steppe and after mixing with the locals gave birth to the Thracians.

Bulgaria's ancient Thracian heritage has been put in the spotlight this year with a number of key archaeological discoveries in the so-called "Valley of the Thracian Kings".

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