Europe's Oldest Town Found in Bulgaria
Europe's oldest town has been found near the continent's oldest salt mines in Provadia , in northeastern Bulgaria. The site is reported to be 7,000 years old. At that time salt was an important means of trade . It was used as money .
The ancient town's population made a good living by selling salt. Archaeologists have also learned a lot about the people of that time by examining their burial sites. They lived in two-storey house protected by thick walls.
Words
- ancient = old
- archaeologist = person who is interested in old civilizations and studies what remains of their buildings
- bun-shaped = a small-round form at the back of your head
- burial site = place where a person’s grave is
- ceramic bowl = a wide round open container made out of baked clay
- copper = soft reddish brown metal that lets electricity pass through easily
- corpse = body
- dweller = a person who lives in a place
- essential = very important
- evaporate = to change into gas
- excavation = to dig carefully in order to find old objects and bones
- lucrative = expensive, well-paid
- make a living = earn money
- mining = to dig minerals out of the ground and sell them
- needle = small thin piece of metal
- pelvis = set of large curved bones at the end of your beck, to which your legs are joined
- precious = very valuable
- resource = raw material
- ritual = tradition , custom
- roughly = about
- settlement= group of houses in a place where few people have lived before
- spiral = curved around a central point
- technique = method