Old, historical map of ancient Thrace, 1585
worshipped the mother
goddess, and who had
complex funerary rituals immersed in symbolism.
There are many puzzles that arise when
we
investigate
the
ancient Thracians. For
example, they had a
rare ability for discov-
ering and extracting
natural deposits without harming nature.
Archaeologists
and
anthropologists continue to be surprised by
the kinds of advanced
technological practices
that the Thracians were
using. If, as some scholars believe, they were
intermingling with the
people who inhabited
17
Bulgarian lands since
ancient times, they
presumably exchanged
knowledge, and their
wisdom swelled as they
incorporated the skills,
practices and information of the other culture.
So what mysteries
remain from the first