Some of the oldest preserved dwellings in all of Europe were discovered in the Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora. According to specialists they date even from the distant end of the 6th millennium before Chtist. The dwellings were studied carefully and preserved on the spot where they were found. They were left to us by the first inhabitants of Stara Zagora who came to these lands at the end of the 6th – the beginning of the 7th millennium before Christ. Today we call this age the Neolithic. People then made their living with farming and animal husbandry.
So that they would be well protected today the dwellings of our ancestors are covered with a special roof, part of the city’s historical museum. Stand before them and imagine the children playing in those distant times, the mother working. This is helped along by the preserved objects used in the everyday life of the ancient people.