National Museum of History
Vast national history collection of over 650,000 objects, with dazzling Thracian gold treasures.
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This guide to the National Museum of History in Sofia turns on a December day in nineteen forty-nine, when three brothers were digging clay for bricks beside a tile factory in the town of Panagyurishte. It follows them, a policeman with a rifle, a towel-factory window and a local archaeologist through the first days of one of Bulgaria's most famous finds. Best heard standing at the cases of Thracian gold, close enough to read the decoration on the dish.
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