The First Kings of Europe: The Varna Culture

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Play World of Tanks here: https://tanks.ly/3rTk8Hq Thank you World of Tanks for sponsoring this video. During registration use the code TANKMANIA to get for free: 7 Days Premium Account 250k credits Premium Tank Excelsior (Tier 5) 3 rental tanks for 10 battles each: Tiger 131 (Tier 6), Cromwell B (Tier 6), and T34-85M (Tier 6) The promo code is only for new players during the registration. Check out the WoT merch on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3HhfIkG The Varna Necropolis, Bulgaria contains the earliest gold treasure in the world, dating to 4500 BC. These Chalcolithic graves of Old Europe contained more than 3,000 gold artefacts weighing over six kilograms. That's more than anywhere else in the fifth millennium BC, including Mesopotamia and Egypt. Instead of the glorious civilisations of the near east, the world's first goldsmiths lived on the shores of the Black Sea. But what was the Varna Culture? How did they accumulate so much treasure? And what happened to them? --- If you enjoy my videos please consider supporting the channel --- Patreon ➜ https://www.patreon.com/dandavisauthor PayPal ➜ https://paypal.me/DanDavisAuthor Ko-fi ➜ https://ko-fi.com/dandavis --- My Books --- Godborn: Gods of Bronze 1 ➜ https://amzn.to/3nm2au1 All my books on Amazon ➜ https://amzn.to/3xngwz5 --- My Links --- Website http://dandavisauthor.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dandavisauthor/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanDavisWrites Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dandavisaut... --- Video Sources --- The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC ➜ https://amzn.to/3S0PuGJ Prehistoric Copper Mining in Europe - William O'Brian ➜ https://amzn.to/3vw0Omp A History of Metallurgy - RF Tylecote ➜ https://amzn.to/3s2Go1Y The First Farmers of Europe: An Evolutionary Perspective - Stephen Shennan ➜ https://amzn.to/3wNDcqA On the Invention of Gold Metallurgy - Verena Leusch et al (2014) The genomic history of southeastern Europe - Mathieson et al (2018) Varna culture: an autonomous phenomenon or a local version of the Kodzhadermen-Gumelnitsa-Karanovo VІ cultural complex - Viktoria Petrova (2016) **The above links include affiliate links which means we will earn a small commission from your purchases at no additional cost to you which is a way to support the channel.** --- Video Chapters --- 00:00 The Varna Culture 01:26 Video Sponsorship 02:27 Varna Necropolis burials 07:40 Cenotaph symbolic burials 11:10 Old Europe 13:22 Varna Trade Networks 14:18 Varna Chiefs 15:22 The Varna King 16:50 Varna culture DNA 18:27 the Fall of the Varna culture