GOLD RUSH:
Thracian artifacts, like this piece of horse's armor, reveal Bulgaria's past
They had been digging for 12 years, 4 months a year, 18 hours a day. Since 1992, Georgi Kitov and his team have been searching through Bulgaria's Valley of the Kings, a 100-km, heavily forested region in the center of the country. The valley is dotted with ancient burial mounds erected by the Thracians, whose legacy as a pillar of ancient Europe lives on in texts and stories, but whose civilization remains a mystery. Kitov is slowly exploring the necropolis and making some of the country's most incredible discoveries in the hopes of adding to historians' limited knowledge of...
