Treasures found in Romania’s largest Hellenic tumors –

Last month, an extraordinary treasure was unearthed in the 3rd century BC in Mangalia, southeastern Romania, and was revealed to the public for the first time last month at the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest. These findings include jewelry, gold and silver harness accessories, textile decals, and two gold medals and two exquisite and sophisticated craftsmanship. These rare ships are just a considerable example of such excellent ones, only found in the tombs of the Royal Tomb of Vilghana in Macedonia and the Thracian King Seuthes III in Bulgaria.

This summer, the tomb was discovered during excavations of the urethral cemetery in the ancient ancient city of Calatis. Its semi-cylindrical vaulted ceiling is a large tomb mound 40 feet high with a diameter of 230 feet, which is the largest Hellenic tumor tomb in the Western Black Sea region, so it can be seen from the sea. Its scale is not only notable, but also striking due to its building quality. This is a well-designed structure that shows a good sense of proportion. The longest stone building of the grave excavated this summer is 60 feet long, and there is more to uncover. Therefore, a grave must belong to an elite Greek family linked to the Macedonian religious and political power structure.

The tomb was quickly looted after construction, but was immediately restored, expanded and re-stated products that included a large amount of alcohol. Its content is very preserved, with wood, textiles and human remains in good condition. Among the special artifacts inside the tomb are three gilded bronze funeral wreaths designed to look like Ivy and Myrtle wreaths with gilded ceramic berries. They were installed on wooden racks and kept in the tumor’s tomb chamber for thousands of years.

Archaeologists have also discovered glass and bronze ornaments, wood fragments with surviving multicolors, possibly from the now lost wooden sarcophagus and elements of carved limestone and marble that may be decorated with sarcophagus. The remains of at least two young men were found in the grave. Osteological analysis found that one was between 16 and 18 years old and the other was between 8 and 11 years old. Some artifacts show that at least one of the dead is a female.

Callatis is a Greek in the early 4th century BC, founded by Heraclea Pontica and Megara, and is one of the richest and most influential Greek cities on the Black Sea in the Greek era. At the end of the 4th century BC, leaders of the regional alliance between the Greeks, Thracians and Scythians opposed Macedonian King Lysimachos, who inherited Thrace’s control after the death of Alexander the Great.

The characteristics of the recently discovered artifacts will determine their classification in the treasure category of the National Cultural Heritage, and their inclusion in the collections of the Romanian Historical Museum, which is the era from this era – brilliant, violent and refined. Their in-depth study will allow for new scientific knowledge about the Greek-Shia Ergot World World in the 4th-3rd century B.C.

The local Kalatia community and its heroic ambition measure, and to some extent, the attitude of aristocratic ambition is certainly conveyed by the tumor cemetery of this ancient city. The old road stretched out kilometers, equivalent to nearly a thousand tumors (funeral mounds), many of which were huge in size (height of 5 m and above). However, the vast majority of this impressive landscape disappeared in the last century, where the “modern” Munglia developed and urbanized. Under the conditions of rescue interventions, some of these tumors are usually expedient or carried out. Recent archaeological studies north of Mangalia presented here are the first systematic study of Romanian tombs and precise locations that were made possible by initially using non-invasive research techniques.

The tomb was found 9 meters below the top of the mound, and its arrangement level is -12 meters. Under these difficult conditions, archaeological research is a challenge, pushing all exploration and documentation approaches to the limit.