Thracian Chariot found in Bulgaria!

[Wander]

Check out this story! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_ ... nt_chariot

Very exciting!

Remarkably, the "chariot" has four wheels. I'm curious to see how they reconstruct that...

[Nicholas Gaukroger]

Thats because its a more exciting headline to call it a chariot rather than a cart :lol:

[Dan Z]

If you look through the picture slide show for that article they also have a really nice close up shot of a shield boss they found in that same tomb.

Is it me or does it look rather Germanic?

[sitalkes]

Check out this story! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_ ... nt_chariot

Very exciting!

Remarkably, the "chariot" has four wheels. I'm curious to see how they reconstruct that...

Many of these 1st- 3rd century funerary carts have been found in Bulgaria, some with two wheels (so a bit more chariot-like) and some with four. They continue the Thracian tradition of burying their leaders in a chariot covered by a mound and are often quite opulently decorated. Horses are often found buried nearby (usually in the entrance) or even in front of the cart with the traces still attached. Two have been completely reconstructed and are in the National Museum of History in Sofia - I photographed them while I was there earlier this year, and I think the photos of them on my Photobucket page

http://www.flickr.com/thracian

http://s284.photobucket.com/albums/ll17 ... an_photos/

www.youtube.com/thracianTV

[M. Demetrius]

Is it me or does it look rather Germanic?

Looks typically Germanic to me, too. I don't know if that was the way that Thracian bosses looked in that period, though. I'm sure there was a lot of crossover near borders of cultures, then, as there is now.

[Na Saighdiuir]

Nice find..seems pretty well preserved as well!!