Ancient jewels discovered in Bulgaria

HUNDREDS of tiny gold jewels crafted some 5,000 years ago have been discovered in Bulgaria, suggesting the country could have been the home of Europe’s earliest civilisation, a leading Bulgarian archaeologist said yesterday.

Over the past month, archaeologists sieving the soil at an ancient village have unearthed hundreds of miniature gold objects, said Bozhidar Dimitrov, the head of Bulgaria’s National Museum of History.