Varna Gold: Inequality Before Civilization

Six and a half thousand years ago, a man was buried with more gold than anyone else on Earth. He had no kingdom, no army, no palace. He lived in a small farming village on the Black Sea coast, in a world without writing or cities. He was dead two thousand years before the pyramids were built. And yet someone — his family, his community, his followers — covered his body in gold and put him in the g...