Varna necropolis is an ancient burial, accidentally discovered in an industrial zone of Varna. Tellingly, discovered the necropolis was quite by accident, in the course of the laying of the cable in 1972: one of the excavator noticed in the bowl of the ladle the parts of ceramics and gold jewelry. The staff of the archaeological Museum of Varna, learning about the findings, immediately began excavating. Within ten years the excavations have been conducted, the area of which now reaches 7500 square meters, the total number of graves – 294. However, from the expected necropolis, the area is only two-thirds.

Found gold objects was 3000 strong, with a total weight of over 6 kg and not less than 600 samples of ceramic products.

One can often hear that the Varna necropolis is also called halcolite, Dating it to the end of the fifth Millennium BC, and suggest that it was used by about 200 years. However, depending on the method of estimating the age, the spread in time out of about 500 years. The antiquity of the finds in Varna by cultural significance to compare with the Egyptian and interfluvial findings. Varna necropolis also gave the name existed before the culture of this area, it is called Varna culture.

During the excavations, scientists have discovered several types of burials: two types with burials of bodies in different poses, and the third type is a symbolic burial - graves with missing bodies, that is, the cenotaphs.

The most richly decorated graves where people were buried lying on his back at full length. It is assumed that the symbolic burial of were created in because it was not possible to find or deliver the body of a deceased person. In such graves piled decorated with copies of human heads from clay.

In addition to jewelry, each grave, scientists have found examples of ceramics, as well as the tools that would be needed for the dead in the afterlife. Also among the findings are the idols and talismans (anthropomorphic and zoomorphic).