Archaeologists found a haul of buried treasure in Bulgaria's capital city Friday, Bulgarian outlet The Sofia Globe reports.
Excavations under Sofia's Sveta Nedelya square yielded 2,976 Roman-era silver coins in a single clay pot, reportedly making the discovery the largest of its kind in the city.
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