From Novinite comes another (potentially strange) one which is quickly filling my mailbox (thanks to DK and several others):

Temples that archaeologists have unearthed in the eastern Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria are about a thousand years older than the pyramids in Egypt and the Mesopotamian civilization, experts claim.

Archaeologists Ana Raduncheva and Stefanka Ivanova said in an interview for BTA that the whole system of temples in the Rhodope region dated back to the Vth millenium B.C. This is almost 4,000 years before the Thracian people settled on these lands.

At the end of the Chalcolithic Age, the rock temples were abandoned for a large period of time. The Thracians rediscovered them about 2,500 years later, the archaeologists claim.


Hmmm ... y'all will forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical on this one and if I begin to wonder what the standards are for archaeology in Bulgaria (they seem awfully pyramidocentric, no?)