May/June 2009 Science Illustrated magazine - page 20

This page was sent to me by my Father.
He sent me this from a sample copy that was sent to him.

In short - 'An 1800 - year old pair of finely wrought gold earrings... -
   Thracian civilization which may have been rivals to the Greeks.

A bronze ring and these elegant - even today - earrings were found by
Georgi Kitov, A
Bulgarian archaeologist - passed away in September -  in a burial mound
near the town
of Krushare - 185 miles East of Sofia, the capitol city.

They are Scallops - winged - and at the opening end a ring holding a
pendant.

I checked scienceillustrated.com and they don't have issues displayed.

The magazine is text with pictures - these pictures - not a Science
Journal by any
stretch.

But if the artifacts stand up to testing and I suspect they are well
documented,
there might form a new date for shell adornment made by man.  The ring
was dated 700 years older than the earrings.

Martin

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Martin H. Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
TSRA, Endowed; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal.
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.
http://lufkinced.com/

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