황금보검 3 0:16 Very unfamiliar name ancient Thracia and whirlpool patterns of the Celts, all these things make Silla Golden Dagger more mysterious. Were the bule eyed men on the Roman glass bead the makers of it? To get any clue if Silla Golden Dagger and the ancient people in ancient Thracia had any link to each other, we are flying to Bulgaria (ancient Thracia), Eastern Europe, thousands of kms away from Korea. 0:56 To get a clue if Silla Golden Dagger and the ancient people in ancient Thracia had any link to each other, we are flying to Bulgaria (ancient Thracia), Eastern Europe, thousands of kms away from Korea. 1:14 Sofia, capital of Bulgaria We asked a Bulgarian scholar if she could find any relationship between Silla Golden Dagger and the Celts. All what I can say is that this is from the Roman period. It seems to have been made during the 4-6C, much later than the Celtic period. The Bulgarian scholar, expert in the Thracian studies says that, as the Celtic group stayed for a very short time in Thracia in the pre-historic time, there is no possibility that Silla Golden Dagger was made by the Celtic people who stayed in Thracia. Instead, she claims that Silla Golden Dagger is related with the ancient Thracian. Ancient Thracian is the oldest people of the Indo-European race. Around the 3000 BC, ethnic Thracian was formed and flourished in modern Bulgaria. 2:56 The Thracian is the people who flourished during 3000 BC and 5C in the Black sea region. We are trying to search for the Gold-Cultural relationship between Silla and the Thracian people. 3:17 Aug, 2004, Kazanlak, Bulgaria In Bulgaria, In mid 20th, a large amount of Golden remains of the Thracian period were unearthed. What similarities do exist between the Thracian and Silla that worshiped Gold and has left a huge amount of Golden remains? 4:00 National History Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria Thousands of years old historic remains are displayed in the Bulgarian museum. Among them Golden remains from Thracia are the most remarkable. Animals and human faces are very finely and artfully depicted. But unfortunately, except that they were made of gold, we could hardly find any similarities to Silla Golden artifacts. Just then, one museum staff introduced some artifacts to us KBS documentary team. They were golden decoration with whirlpool patterns similar to the ones in Silla Golden Dagger. Whirlpool patterns used in ancient Thracia. Can this be a key to the mystery of Silla Golden Dagger? 5:55 Now Bulgaria in the Black Sea region hardly has similarities with Korea but it was land where there were active cultural exchanges between the East and the West in ancient times. Silk of 4C BC, along with armor and helmet considered to be from the Thracian royalty was found, which prove that there were exchanges between the East and the West much earlier than previously believed. 6:36 It was known that the Silk Road grew after the death of Alexandros the Great but much before the death of him the exchange between the East and the West started. 6:52 Then who were the Thracians that made active cultural exchanges between the East and the West? 7:04 Thracian Tomb (4C BC), Alexandrovm, Bulgaria It is a Thracian tomb mural painting believed to be from 4C BC. Men on the wall painting are all riding horses and hunting on horses. The wall painting says that the Thracians were horse riding people. The Thracians were similar to the Mongols, the proto-Bulgarians and the Tatars, who were excellent keeping horses. 8:12 The ancient Thracians in modern Bulgaria, in the Balkan Peninsula region, were the people who galloped across the vast steppe. Their culture must have been related with Eurasian culture.