The earliest traces of human presence in the Varna region date back to the Early Paleolithic Age (about 100 000 BC). In the museum Middle Paleolithic flint tools illustrate the period, found during plant construction in the valley of river Devnia.

Other flint tools and artifacts represent the Late Paleolithic ages, found during excavations in the locality Pobitite kamani.

The so-called Little Cave, near the village of Beloslav is studied as well as flint tools have been found. Mesolithic age findings have important place in regional history, especially those found in the locality Pobitite kamani near Varna. This is the only archaeological site dating back to Middle Paleolithic Age on Bulgarian territory.

Flint

These artifacts are flint microliths – testimony that man was well aware of tool parts, produced of small flint pieces and other material – wood, bones and other. Some flint pieces served as arrows tops. During the Chalcolithic Age local populations entered into new stage of development. This was due to mastering metallurgy of copper and gold, as well as increased contacts with neighbors and use of maritime routes on the seashores. The Chalcolithic Age is studied in Varna territory on several sites.

From the Early Chalcolithic Age date housing layers of inhabited areas near the villages Golyamo Delchevo and Sava. Both are in the museum in the form of tools made of stone, bones and horns, as well as clay and bone made anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures, as well as several ceramic utensils with cut-in lines.

Findings from the settlement near Suvorovo illustrate the Middle Chalcolithic Age. Among the ceramics are hollow stands in form of four angled parallel piped, standing on high legs bowls with bended outside edges and many similar. Most often stamped ornaments decorate the utensils, applied by seals made of mussels with broken angles.

Tombs

A specific place have three tombs excavated in the north shore of the Varna lake. They contain valuable artifacts about the first social differentiation among the local population. In one of them there were about 1,000 objects, among which 31 golden pieces of necklace, representing the oldest worked gold pieces on earth up to present day.

But the most important monument excavated from this age is the world-famous Chalcolithic Necropolis, exhibited in three separate museum exposition halls. It was found by accident during construction works in western industrial zone in 1972 and soon turned into sensational scientific discovery with break-through importance well over the borders of prehistory of contemporary Bulgarian territory.

The studies completed until now )excavations are still not completed) have discovered 294 tombs. In 57 tombs there is no human skeleton and only three contain the largest part of gold objects and the best other findings.