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Pieces of 7,000-year-old Chalcolithic pottery are the first prehistory finds ever from the downtown of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Photo: TV grab from BNT via ArchaeologyinBulgaria.com
For the very first time archaeologists have found prehistoric traces of human life in the very downtown of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia – 7,000-year-old Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper Age) pottery – which comes close to the age of the Slatina Neolithic Settlement in Sofia’s Slatina Quarter.
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