Alan Ereira

Nearly 7,000 years old, we don't know that the man was a king, except the stuff he's carrying is what we associate with a royal regalia. Why? Where does this idea come from? It comes out of nowhere. There isn't a predecessor to this. And this is where the story of gold actually begins. Now, that cemetery is really a culture we know nothing about. It disappeared from the face of the earth.

Six of the graves contain not just no human being, but no human being and quite a lot of gold. Three of them contain scepters with no bones in there. Three of them, and they're associated also with weaponry, and the one that I call the Lord of Varna. has got weaponry, and his weaponry is amazing. He has got a flint sword, 35 centimetres long. A flint sword? Flint, yes. Wow.

Six of the graves contain not just no human being, but no human being and quite a lot of gold. Three of them contain scepters with no bones in there. Three of them, and they're associated also with weaponry, and the one that I call the Lord of Varna. has got weaponry, and his weaponry is amazing. He has got a flint sword, 35 centimetres long. A flint sword? Flint, yes. Wow.

Six of the graves contain not just no human being, but no human being and quite a lot of gold. Three of them contain scepters with no bones in there. Three of them, and they're associated also with weaponry, and the one that I call the Lord of Varna. has got weaponry, and his weaponry is amazing. He has got a flint sword, 35 centimetres long. A flint sword? Flint, yes. Wow.

And it comes from Switzerland. I mean, this is a very, very long journey. He's got material from the Alps, the Italian Alps. So there are huge journeys being undertaken. There are very long connections with people very far away at this period when the rest of the Balkans is hunter-gatherers. This is associated with a small group of the earliest agricultural settlements there.

And it comes from Switzerland. I mean, this is a very, very long journey. He's got material from the Alps, the Italian Alps. So there are huge journeys being undertaken. There are very long connections with people very far away at this period when the rest of the Balkans is hunter-gatherers. This is associated with a small group of the earliest agricultural settlements there.

And it comes from Switzerland. I mean, this is a very, very long journey. He's got material from the Alps, the Italian Alps. So there are huge journeys being undertaken. There are very long connections with people very far away at this period when the rest of the Balkans is hunter-gatherers. This is associated with a small group of the earliest agricultural settlements there.

Well, you say a status symbol. I think it's something different from that. Okay. I think it's a direct connection with eternity. That is part of the status, of course. You have to be entitled. But the thing that makes gold so strange... is that it is incorruptible. So it doesn't belong in the mortal world.

Well, you say a status symbol. I think it's something different from that. Okay. I think it's a direct connection with eternity. That is part of the status, of course. You have to be entitled. But the thing that makes gold so strange... is that it is incorruptible. So it doesn't belong in the mortal world.

Well, you say a status symbol. I think it's something different from that. Okay. I think it's a direct connection with eternity. That is part of the status, of course. You have to be entitled. But the thing that makes gold so strange... is that it is incorruptible. So it doesn't belong in the mortal world.

So you have people who've discovered this substance, which is unlike anything else in that it's absolutely malleable, absolutely ductile. You can change it in any way you like without altering it, because you can put it back together again after you finish working it, and it turns back into what it was.

So you have people who've discovered this substance, which is unlike anything else in that it's absolutely malleable, absolutely ductile. You can change it in any way you like without altering it, because you can put it back together again after you finish working it, and it turns back into what it was.

So you have people who've discovered this substance, which is unlike anything else in that it's absolutely malleable, absolutely ductile. You can change it in any way you like without altering it, because you can put it back together again after you finish working it, and it turns back into what it was.

You can bury it in the ground for lifetimes, and when you dig it up again, it'll look exactly as it did when you buried it. There's nothing else like that on Earth.

You can bury it in the ground for lifetimes, and when you dig it up again, it'll look exactly as it did when you buried it. There's nothing else like that on Earth.

You can bury it in the ground for lifetimes, and when you dig it up again, it'll look exactly as it did when you buried it. There's nothing else like that on Earth.

It is material that is somehow in the changing world, but not of the changing world. So it has a connection, obviously an obvious connection, to the sun, to the heavens, to eternity. And so there is an association with something that we could interpret as divine power, or the authority of the heavens is being granted by something here on earth to people. But

It is material that is somehow in the changing world, but not of the changing world. So it has a connection, obviously an obvious connection, to the sun, to the heavens, to eternity. And so there is an association with something that we could interpret as divine power, or the authority of the heavens is being granted by something here on earth to people. But

It is material that is somehow in the changing world, but not of the changing world. So it has a connection, obviously an obvious connection, to the sun, to the heavens, to eternity. And so there is an association with something that we could interpret as divine power, or the authority of the heavens is being granted by something here on earth to people. But

because I would distinguish between money and being used for exchange. Money is something with defined value, and it's being used for exchange long before it has a defined value. And the problem for them is people have to work out how to use it for exchange. But it acquires this exchange identity because of its connection to eternity.