An atlas of Earth’s mysterious places — megaliths, pyramids, lost and sunken cities — with the evidence shown plainly: what is verified, what is contested, and what is still unknown.

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Bulgaria

48 places in the atlas, 1 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.

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Tells28
Ancient villages24
Buried cities23
Mounds23
Necropoleis9
Ancient cities5
Hydraulic works5
Megaliths5
Reservoirs5
Archaeological wonders3
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Kazanlak, Stara Zagora5
Varna Oblast5
Thracian Plain4
Burgas Province, Black Sea coast1
Burgas Province, Black Sea coast, Burgas Bay1
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Verified47 Widely accepted1 Contested0

Dobrich Province, Black Sea Coast, Lake Durankulak1

Dobrich Province, Kavarna District, Dobrudzha coast1

Dobrich Province, Shabla municipality – Black Sea coast 6 km from sea, Lake Durankulak1

Dobrich, Shabla, Durankulak1

Eastern Rhodopes, Kardzhali1

Pazardzhik Province, Yunatsite1

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Pseudoarchaeology0

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🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Necropolis

Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis — West Industrial Zone

Late Chalcolithic (Varna Culture) · Varna Culture (Gumelnița-Karanovo)

Chalcolithic cemetery in western Varna industrial zone (c. 4560–4450 BCE) with 294 graves, yielding world's oldest gold treasure (3,000+ gold artifacts, 6 kg).