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Archeologists have discovered a 2,400-year-old golden mask that was likely made for a Thracian monarch's funeral. The mask is a full face with moustache and beard. The rare artifact is made of 600 grams of solid gold. Georgi Kitov and his team find this mask in the summer of 2004 near the village of Shipka.The mask may belong to King Seutus III, the Thracian  king who ruled in the fifth century.

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The Rogozen treasure, was also discovered by chance. In this case the finder was a tractor driver, who discovered a collection of sixty-five silver receptacles. On January 6, 1986, in a second trench near the first one, a hundred more receptacles were found by the archaeologists of the local museum. The treasure consists of hundred and eight phials, fifty-four jugs and three goblets. All the objects are silver and some with a golden gilt. Their total weight is twenty kilograms.

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