‘Salt Pit’ Prehistoric Town in Bulgaria’s Provadiya Built Oldest Stone Fortress Walls in Europe to Protect Its Riches, Archaeologist Says
January 28, 2018 · by Ivan Dikov · in Prehistory
Europe’s first stone fortress – built ca. 4,700 BC – had especially wide and sturdy walls. Photo: TV grab from BNT
Some 6,700 years ago the residents of the Solnitsata (“The Salt Pit") prehistoric town in today’s Provadiya in Northeast Bulgaria built what were Europe’s first fortress walls made of stone in order to protect their riches accumulated from the large-scale production of salt extracted from a massive rock salt deposit.
Those early fortress walls of the Provadiya – Solnitsata prehistoric settlement, which has been dubbed “Europe’s oldest prehistoric town“, were really thick, too – 3 to 4 meters, lead archaeologist, Prof. Vasil Nikolov from the National Institute and Museum of Archaeology in Sofia has told BNT with respect to the results from the 2017 archaeological excavations.
http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/01/28/salt-pit-prehistoric-town-bulgarias-provadiya-oldest-stone-fortress-walls-europe-protect-riches-archaeologist-says/
