National Archeological Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Archaeology museum in a fifteenth-century former mosque, home to Thracian gold and Bronze Age treasures.
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This guide to the National Archaeological Museum in Sofia follows a hoard of Bronze Age gold, from a vineyard near the village of Valchitran in December nineteen twenty-four to the Treasury hall of this old Ottoman mosque. It turns on two brothers, Todor and Nikola, and the moment they started to doubt what they had found. Along the way you'll hear what scholars believe the vessels were for, and the sun imagery worked into them. Best heard standing in the Treasury hall in the museum's eastern wing.
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