Bulgaria - 'Oldest town' discovery
November 4, 2012, Sunday
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A prehistoric town unearthed in eastern Bulgaria is the oldest urban settlement found in Europe, a Bulgarian archaeologist said Thursday.
Vasil Nikolov, a professor from Bulgaria's National Institute of Archaeology, said the stone walls excavated by his team near the town of Provadia are estimated to date between 4,700 and 4,200 BC. He said the walls, which are 3 meters high and 2 meters thick, are believed to be the earliest and most massive fortifications from Europe's prehistory.
The team has unearthed remains of a settlement of two-story houses with a diameter of about 100 meters (328 feet) encircled by a fortified wall. Bulgaria, a Balkan country of 7.3 million, hosts numerous Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age settlement mounds.
Vasil Nikolov, a professor from Bulgaria's National Institute of Archaeology, said the stone walls excavated by his team near the town of Provadia are estimated to date between 4,700 and 4,200 BC. He said the walls, which are 3 meters high and 2 meters thick, are believed to be the earliest and most massive fortifications from Europe's prehistory.
The team has unearthed remains of a settlement of two-story houses with a diameter of about 100 meters (328 feet) encircled by a fortified wall. Bulgaria, a Balkan country of 7.3 million, hosts numerous Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age settlement mounds.
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