| Digging trenches in World War II, soldiers stumbled on a 2,400-year-old tomb containing dazzling, richly colored frescoes, like this stunner (above) on the ceiling.
Archaeologists would later learn that this place, in modern-day Bulgaria, belonged to a royal necropolis that stretched across the landscape for miles. It wrapped around a lost city, part of a once-powerful ancient European kingdom that predated Alexander the Great.
Today, researchers say more than 1,000 sites here are awaiting excavation—likely containing valuable clues to European civilization.
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