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SKELETON OF BULGARIAN WW I SOLDIER FOUND IN MACEDONIA

Tue, Oct 30 2007 13:36 CET

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Archaeologically excavations of an ancient necropolis near Bitola in Macedonia, uncovered the well-preserved skeleton of a Bulgarian soldier dating from World War I, local museum experts said.

The skeleton was found in a necropolis of the ancient city of Heraclea Lyncestis. The necropolis dated back to the 4th c BC, Bulgarian news agency BTA quoted Bulgarian daily Dnevnik as saying.

"We found a large quantity of partial skeletons of Bulgarian soldiers, parts of coats, buttons and coins," Dnevnik quoted archaeologist Anica Georgievska as saying.

According to Georgievska, the most interesting find was the well-preserved skeleton of a young Bulgarian soldier with Bulgarian coins of that period in his pocket.

"What shocked us was that he was still holding a pencil stump in his right hand," she said.

During World War I, the front line ran across the area of Bitola, where a cemetery of Bulgarian soldiers and officers was recently discovered and restored in a church yard of the village of Capari, Dnevnik said.

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